Reporting projects are the kind of projects which never seem to end. After a couple iterations I’ve come to the following conclusions: Absolutely no reports should run on a production database. Moving/aggregating data from a production database to a reporting database using ETL tools prone to synchronization issues and pretty unreliable. The best option…

I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years. I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me…

Recently I created my first ZFS clones but quickly realized that there was no simple way to tell the clones from the regular filesystems. My first instinct was to run ‘zfs list -t clone’ similar to ‘zfs list -t snapshot’ but this didn’t work. Maybe it works in newer versions of ZFS.

After some poking…