Openindiana ZFS + TimeMachine Backup Server
So, you want the stability and redundancy of ZFS. You also want to use Apple's Time Machine client but don't want to buy apple kit in order to backup your files. I'm using Opensolaris Openindiana in a JBOD setup to do this pretty easily. There are some good howto's on doing this on the net for Linux. This howto in specific for Ubuntu is located here. It's an excellent guide you can follow for doing the same on Opensolaris; Openindiana, however compiling netatalk on Opensolaris Openindiana needs some modification and there is an excellent howto on doing this here.
There are a couple of things to note. Opensolaris Openindiana uses it's own stack for mdns. When you get to the instructions on avahi you should not need to download or install this at all. There is a daemon called the avahi-daemon-bridge that essentially bridges avahi client calls for userspace clients like Ekiga that need it. So essentially you can skip that part of the instruction.
Opensolaris Openindiana uses SMF (Service Management Framework) to manage it's processes. So where you see things like "restart x process" in the guide you'll be doing something like "svcadm restart FMRI" where FMRI stands for Fault Managed Resource Identifier.
That's about it, note that you don't need to use AFP at all. You can also just install Samba via OpenSolaris Openindiana and create a share and have TimeMachine use that and it also works just as great!
Random Cool
Don't shout at your disks; especially when they are working! I'm sure you should still talk to your plants though.
All of *.wordpress.com is behind Nginx/Apache/Varnish and that's pretty cool; Looks like they are saving a bunch of money by switching to Gei^H^H^H, heh.
Bought a brand new Macbook for work because my Powerbook G4 finally gave up the ghost. I wanted to try and sneak it in for the previous tax year but that's illegal according to my tax accountant, so i'll write it off next year. It was time anyway and my brother beat the g4 up pretty good during his first 3 years of college. I bought him a new one and took this old one. So in the meantime i've been using this Thinkpad x60 and Opensolaris... I really miss my Apple desktop, and I really should file a bug about this reverse polarity crap. This issue was fixed; I know because we went through this in like 2007 and 2008. Why isn't this fix in OpenSolaris?
Little bored but have been keeping busy coding (NIMS; thanks everyone for supporting and answering my dumb questions) and reading at night; taken it back old school.. Pool tonight.. i'm coming out with a win!! A.P.A BABY! Probably gonna buy the Opensolaris Bible to cut my teeth past ZFS because that's all I really use it for right now. Alexander Limi, leaves Google from what sounds like a select group of managers that were smoking crack/cocaine. Too bad for Google, should be good for Plone 4 though.. heh.. ok..