February 7, 2013

How I upgrade my WordPress installations

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I have three blogs run on WordPress. Each runs on its own installation of WordPress. Why? Because all the single-install solutions I’ve seen were not very attractive. Convince me otherwise. Following the official instructions, I drew up this set of instructions which work for me. Hopefully, they work for you too. But I’m sure it’d going to be cryptic at first. My WordPress is installed in the directory wordpress.installed. The webserver looks for […]

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zfsroot guides – which one to use?

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I started looking around for guides for creating a zfsroot. Here is what I’ve glanced at so far, along with some of my comments. I plan to create an 8 drive array, running raidz2. FreeBSD wiki page – seems OK ZFS-only booting by Ollivier Robert – based on 8.0, but I need to read it through again OPTI­MIZED FOR 4K-SECTOR DRIVES – interesting, but not set up the way I want my system

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Benchmarking the Seagate ST2000DM001 – slower hardware

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In the previous benchmark of the Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB HDD, I used a AMD Opteron 6128 Magny-Cours 2.0GHz (see the URL for complete details of the system). Today, I’m using a different system. The hardware We are testing on the following hardware: motherboard – SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL+-F Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1155 Intel C202 DDR3 1333 (manufacturer page) – $179.99 CPU – Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 Ivy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) 4 x

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Benchmarking the Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q – ZFS

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Following on from yesterday’s benchmark, I’m adding in some ZFS tests. All hardware is the same. Of note: $ zdb | grep ashift ashift: 9 $ sudo diskinfo -v ada0 Password: ada0 512 # sectorsize 128035676160 # mediasize in bytes (119G) 250069680 # mediasize in sectors 0 # stripesize 0 # stripeoffset 248085 # Cylinders according to firmware. 16 # Heads according to firmware. 63 # Sectors according to firmware. S12PNEACB31368P # Disk

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