One of the great things of ZFS is its built-in compression capability. Enabling compression on a ZFS filesystem allows you to save a significant amount of space, especially in a field like ours where one sometimes needs to use large plain text files. It is completely transparent: the user doesn’t notice anything. Well… unless they […]
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I recently had to send a couple of ZFS file systems from one server to another, both running Ubuntu Linux 16.04. Since both servers were in the same trusted local network, there was no need for encryption. As various other websites will tell you, the fastest way to transfer data over a local network is […]
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Several years ago we advised one of our clients, a research group in the field of genomics, on the acquisition of a compute server for their omics analyses. After helping them to select the most suitable machine configuration we were also offered to do the system administration and hardware maintenance of the machine, which we […]
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