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Subject: Re: Measuring ZFS configuration differences
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On Oct 12, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:
>=20
> Following up on the discussions during EuroBSDCon 2015 (Stockholm) =
during the FreeBSD Developer
> Summit regarding various ZFS configuration settings, I write to start =
our implementation phase now that some
> usual suspects have joined the list.
>=20
>  re https://wiki.freebsd.org/201510DevSummit/Performance
>=20
> I think the first order of business is granting access rights to the =
server (varm) in question:
>=20
>  http://dan.langille.org/2015/07/19/varm/
>=20
> During the workshop, mention was made of serial access.  I can arrange =
that.
>=20
> The server has IPMI, however, my first thought:
>=20
> 1 - connect a USB-serial cable to varm & link that to another server =
in my rack.

Marcelo: At EuroBSDCon, was it you who mentioned a particular =
configuration for the test machine which made
it easy to configure and run tests?  Was it PXE booting or something?

> 2 - create a jail in that server and give it access to that serial =
connection
> 3 - redirect incoming port XYZ to that jail via a public-key-only ssh =
connection
> 4 - give people access
>=20
> Any suggestions?

=E2=80=94=20
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/