3. OpenStack on Gentoo is awesome

   Some may wonder why to run OpenStack on Gentoo, it's akin to running one extremely complex piece of software on another potentially extremely complex operating system.

   I propose Gentoo as the most correct operating system to run OpenStack as Gentoo is best prepared to handle some of the complexities that …

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4. Gentoo Hardened ZFS rootfs with dm-crypt/luks 0.6.5

   Disclaimer

   1. Keep in mind that ZFS on Linux is supported upstream, for differing values of support
   2. I do not care much for hibernate, normal suspending works.
   3. This is for a laptop/desktop, so I choose multilib.
   4. IANAL
   5. If you patch the kernel to add in ZFS support directly, you cannot …

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5. Gentoo on the Odroid-U3

   Arm cross compiler setup and stuffs

   This will set up a way to compile things for arm on your native system (amd64 for me)

   emerge dev-embedded/u-boot-tools sys-devel/crossdev
   crossdev -S -s4 -t armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi
   

   Building the kernel

   This assumes you have kernel sources, I'm testing 3.17-rc2 since they just …

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6. testing the s3700

   The Setup

   Two 100G s3700 drives, one tested with luks, one not.

   Filled the drive to test with it filled.

   Testing 4k/8k, with luks using --size=8 or --size=9 for 4k and 8k respectivly.

   I used the following settings in fio, changing the filename and block size where …

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