2018-09-13: Reset iDRAC VLAN parameters

ipmitool lan set 1 vlan id off

2018-07-24: Exporting pass-through drives on a LSI MegaRAID adapter

I just wanted to make the raw drives accessible to the OS and not create RAID volumes.

list drives:

# megacli -PDList -a0

...
Enclosure Device ID: 32
Slot Number: 14
...

Set drive as pass-through:

# megacli -PDMakeJBOD -PhysDrv\[32:14\] -a0

October 20, 2011: Hammer presentation

I gave a brief talk on the Hammer filesystem for a panel of sysadmins during the local Sysadmin Days #3 conference at Irill.

November 15, 2011: PostgreSQL benchmarks

I had access to a fast machine and decided to run some PostgreSQL scaling benchmarks. The original idea was to measure performance differences between the then current development version of DragonFly BSD and the previous release, with FreeBSD as a side reference.

After going public, people convinced me to run the same benchmarks with a few other operating systems. You'll find the final document below.