Daily Shaarli
March 24, 2025
It is unclear why the D.C. Circuit has allowed Dellinger’s Motion to Dismiss to linger, as opposed to denying it with a note reprimanding his attorneys to follow the controlling procedures for dismissing a case. But by failing to immediately nix Dellinger’s efforts to manipulate the court, we are now seeing other litigants, such as those in the Maryland case challenging the termination of DEI initiatives, trying similar tacks.
The appellate courts need to make clear to litigants that such jockeying will not work, and then they need to put an end to the outrageous preliminary injunctions. And if they refuse to do so, the Supreme Court needs to end its delusional view that it is maintaining the reputation of the judicial branch by allowing the normal process to play out in these politically charged cases—because there is nothing normal about the lower courts’ efforts to unconstitutionally control the Executive Branch.
The following sections describe how to identify and resolve problems with your ZFS file systems or storage pools:
- Determining If Problems Exist in a ZFS Storage Pool
- Reviewing zpool status Output
- System Reporting of ZFS Error Messages
How about using FreeBSD as an Enterprise Storage solution on real hardware? This where FreeBSD shines with all its storage features ZFS included.
Today I will show you how I have built so called Enterprise Storage based on FreeBSD system along with more then 1 PB (Petabyte) of raw capacity. //
There are 4U servers with 90-100 3.5″ drive slots which will allow you to pack 1260-1400 Terabytes of data (with 14 TB drives). Examples of such systems are:
I would use the first one – the TYAN FA100 for short name.
The build has following specifications.
2 x 10-Core Intel Xeon Silver 4114 CPU @ 2.20GHz
4 x 32 GB RAM DDR4 (128 GB Total)
2 x Intel SSD DC S3500 240 GB (System)
90 x Toshiba HDD MN07ACA12TE 12 TB (Data)
2 x Broadcom SAS3008 Controller
2 x Intel X710 DA-2 10GE Card
2 x Power Supply
Price of the whole system is about $65 000 – drives included.
The Republicans may have complete control of Congress, but President Trump still has a major roadblock to carrying out his agenda — the courts.
The lower courts blocked more of Trump’s executive orders in his first two months of office than they did for other recent commanders in chief during their entire terms.
The lower courts have slapped at least 15 national injunctions against Trump so far this year.
That drastically outpaces the six against former President George W. Bush during his entire presidency and the 12 against former President Barack Obama and the 14 against former President Joe Biden for their whole time in office, too, according to a tally from Harvard Law Review.
Stephen Miller @StephenM
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It takes 5 Supreme Court justices to issue a ruling that affects the whole nation. Yet lone District Court judges assume the authority to unilaterally dictate the policies of the entire executive branch of government.
Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten
Replying to @EricTeetsel
There’s a credible case to be made that any one of around 700 district court judges possesses more power than any one Supreme Court justice, given the unilateral power to issue a universal injunction
8:34 AM · Mar 20, 2025. //
How it works: Lawsuits against the federal government start in a district court — there are more than 600 district-court judges — then can move to an appeals court, then the Supreme Court.
In the old days, district courts' rulings only applied to the parties before them. But since the beginning of the Obama administration, those judges have become increasingly willing to say their rulings apply nationwide — the same scope a Supreme Court decision has. //
I’m open-minded enough to consider that some of these rulings are in fact fair, but the sheer number of them—especially compared with historical precedent—is simply impossible to ignore.
And deeply troubling.
China has said it will not honor the judgment. “The so-called lawsuit has no basis in fact, law or international precedence,” Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu told The New York Times. “China does not and will not accept it. If China’s interests are harmed, we will firmly take reciprocal countermeasures according to international law.”
China was not represented at the trial, resulting in a default judgment.
It's unclear why China is buying farmland in the United States. Granted real estate can be a valuable part of an investment portfolio, but China has ample land of their own. Interestingly, China is far from the largest foreign owner of American agricultural land; that largest foreign owner, as of 2021, would be Canada, followed by the Netherlands, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany. China's ownership, also as of 2021, is about 383,935 acres. It's likely, though, that the Canadian and other interests represent ownership by large agricultural business concerns, whereas China's purchases are disturbing due to some of the lands' proximity to important U.S. military installations. For example: Chinese interests have purchased 300 acres of land near Grand Forks Air Force Base, which is home to a B-1 Lancer wing, along with other assets.
The Road to RAID-Z Expansion
Expanding storage capacity has long been a challenge for RAID-Z users. Traditionally, increasing the size of a RAID-Z pool required adding an entirely new RAID-Z vdev, often doubling the number of disks—an impractical solution for smaller storage pools with limited expansion options.
To address this, the FreeBSD Foundation funded the development of RAID-Z expansion, making it both practical and easy to implement. Led by Matt Ahrens, a ZFS co-creator, the feature underwent years of rigorous testing and refinement. Although the pandemic caused some delays, the project was feature complete in 2022. Additional integration steps followed, and the feature is now generally available in the OpenZFS.
Thank You for Your Support
After years of development, industry collaboration, infrastructure testing, and nearly $100,000 investment, we are so excited to see RAID-Z expansion in the recent release of OpenZFS 2.3. We’re also grateful to iXsystems for their efforts in finalizing and integrating this feature into OpenZFS.
This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of the ZFS filesystem and reinforces its position as a cutting-edge open source filesystem for modern storage use cases.
This development work happened because of your donations to the FreeBSD Foundation. We couldn’t have made this financial commitment without your help. Thank you to all our supporters, large and small.
Learn about sieve syntax and how recipes are set up. This article is not a comprehensive list of everything that sieve can do, but rather a guide to helping you get started with sieve. If you want more information about what sieve is, see our article What is Sieve Filtering?
sing the guide to build plugins for Roundcube, I set up a "no_forward_for_groupes" plugin, in the [roundcubeRoot]/plugin/no_forward_for_groupes folder. I activated it in the [roundcubeRoot]/config/config.inc.php file by wrtiting
$config['plugins'] = array('no_forward_for_groupes');as any other plugin.
After a bit of reading and research in the [roundcubeRoot]/program/js/app.js file (the core JS of Roundcube), I found the object I need to act with and the events to listen. The final code is just after. As you can see, I disabled a lot of other commands, as well as drag and drop. So basically I have a read-only folder, which you can't get any mails out of. I know it's kind of a specific use-case, but I hope it'll help some folks out there someday!
ZFS automatically logs successful zfs and zpool commands that modify pool state information. This information can be displayed by using the zpool history command.
Geerling’s experiment underscores a humorous yet insightful reality: while pigeons can outperform fiber optics in specific, limited scenarios, the internet remains the superior choice for large-scale and long-distance data transmission. As data volumes continue to grow exponentially—reaching into the petabit range—the efficiency and scalability of fiber and other digital technologies are indispensable.
Unlike the months and years handed down in sentences to people who merely entered the Capitol, I'd be shocked if any of this results in more than a stern talking to by some Obama or Biden appointee on the DC bench. Nevertheless, the proceedings will probably provide sufficient cause to terminate the whole lot, and that counts for something.