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Musical collets

Posted on 2013-09-30 by

A month or so ago, the CSAIL machine shop got a new milling machine to replace a Monarch milling machine from 1956 (seven years older than the Lab itself). I never used this machine — or indeed any of the … Continue reading →

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Building big NFS servers with FreeBSD/ZFS (2 of 2)

Posted on 2013-09-24 by

At CSAIL, we support two distributed file systems: AFS, which has a sensible security model (if somewhat dated in its implementation), but is slow and limited in storage capacity, and NFS, for people who don’t want security and do need … Continue reading →

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Building big NFS servers with FreeBSD/ZFS (1 of 2)

Posted on 2013-09-24 by

Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the chance to build a number of big file servers for work. Back in January, I wrote a description of the server hardware we used and some of the software configuration that … Continue reading →

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