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I was speaking in general terms about the possibility of sandboxed applications not quite being secure as one would think due to kernel flaws, I wasn't suggesting this particular Windows kernel driver exploit will work on FreeBSD

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/all-four-major-browsers-take-a-stomping-at-pwn2own-hacking-competition/ The part I find most interesting, particularly in relation to FreeBSD's Capsicum, is how Jung Hoon Lee, aka lokihardt got passed the application sandboxing via a kernel driver...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has experience using ZFS with SANs - given that ZFS prefers to have direct access to the physical disks how would you configure it with SAN storage? If you were to present the disks to ZFS, would that mean you would not be able to take advantage of SAN features...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-reboot-patching-comes-to-linux-4-0/ Is something like this being worked on for FreeBSD? Do we event want something like this i.e. is it an attack vector?

Could Dtrace help here? I'm sure there would be a way to get it to alert on file access, though I don't know how you would integrate that with other applications.

I meant all donate a million each :) tongue-in-cheek....

That one million donation is wonderful, I've been waiting for a company to do this - NetApp, Juniper, Apple and others should follow suit.

Very interesting: ZFS RAIDZ stripe width, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love RAIDZ

Yes, it's still a good book and a lot of the information is still relevant. I still remember getting it from Amazon in late 2007, it made good reading over Christmas and the New Year :)

A very interesting talk by Scott Long on how they use FreeBSD for Netflix - ZFSers will be interested at the 22:00 mark where he explains why they didn't go for ZFS (they use UFS + journaling). They also don't use any virtualisation preferring highly tuned machines that avoid the overhead of...

I have been in contact with one of the porters who has confirmed there is a 17% regression in Postgresql 9.3 as compared to Postgresql 9.2 (pre mmap changes) on FreeBSD 10. The performance difference between FreeBSD and other OSs appears to be even larger, so the porter told me that the more...

Don't particularly like the tone of the article but at least theres a mention: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/20 ... d_laptops/

https://calomel.org/freebsd_network_tuning.html

More info on the changes in the release candidate: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.co.uk ... chive.html

As Postgresql has now moved from SysV shared memory to mmap, there appears to be a concern that this would affect performance of PostgreSQL running on FreeBSD: (http://rhaas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/absurd-shared-memory-limits.html) Are there any serious users of PostgreSQL on FreeBSD who could...

Yes, I've already done that with the BIND port and selected the option to replace the base BIND; I also edited src.conf so that it wouldn't be rebuilt when rebuilding world.

Thank you, as soon as I saw your reply I saw the following blog posts from the committer responsible: http://blog.des.no/2013/09/dns-in-freebsd-10/ http://blog.des.no/2013/09/dns-again-a-clarification/

I must admit I was surprised this hasn't got more attention; does anyone know the reasons why BIND is being dropped?

Absolute FreeBSD was/is a great book, probably the best one on FreeBSD for the general user. It would be nice if the author released a new edition for FreeBSD 10 ;)

I'm constantly impressed with open source projects and developers, a message is posted on a forum enquiring about hardware that doesn't currently work and someone helpfully replies with patches to get it working, absolutely remarkable. Try getting the same result with a post to the Microsoft...