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OmniOS / Illumos provides a native way to expose data stored on ZFS using the SMB / CIFS protocol. Furthemore, using zones limits the attack surface of a server ; or a least, the impact of a compromised service.
Long story short: I replaced my UFS+Samba shares with ZFS+Solarish.Continue reading...
Doing some tidying in my network, computers and VPS collection, I went looking for a piece of software that could be used :
at home, as a file server, a backup server and a VM lab. at colloc, as an hypervisor. After looking at SmartOS , I tried OmniOS . It is also based on Illumos . The notes go here.Continue reading...
I had that Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W lying in a box. And because I changed my network configuration, I decided I could use that Pi as a DNS et DHCP server. But I also wanted to take benefits from my POE switch.
It turns out to be really simple, with the proper hardware. Here are the notes.Continue reading...
Doing some tidying in my network, computers and VPS collection, I went looking for a piece of software that could be used :
at home, as a file server, a backup server and a VM lab. at colloc, as an hypervisor. I (re)discovered SmartOS and decided to look at how it would fit or not. I keep my notes here.Continue reading...
I was lucky enough to attend to EuroBSDCon 2023 and offered the opportunity to talk about one of my favorite OpenBSD stock daemon: relayd(8).
The talk was recorded and made available on the EuroBSDCon YouTube channel. . One may check the EuroBSDCon 2023 program for more material.
This post attempts a reboot of the slides content in a more browser-friendly format.Continue reading...