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Benchmarks	Performance
File Systems	RAID


Benchmarks
	rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 hint - A scalable benchmark for testing CPU and memory 15 Aug 1999 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


File Systems
	Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft 18 Oct 1998 swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998 Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998 Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998 NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999 Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999 out of inodes 5 Jul 1999 vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000 NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 drive to drive backup 8 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000 Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000 file system full 1 Sep 2000 mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000 Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


Performance
	vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 hint - A scalable benchmark for testing CPU and memory 15 Aug 1999 nice - making things run slower 6 Dec 2000


RAID
	vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD 9 Dec 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 CLI for 3Ware 9550SX-8LP 14 Aug 2006 3Ware - Manage your RAID arrays via http 28 Aug 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 Restoring an INOPERABLE 3Ware unit 12 Feb 2012