I started slowly building up my knowledge of ZFS, and have decided to start with the most tasty things. One of them is a RAID-Z approach. Jeff Bonwick - a ZFS author and one of newly created OpenSolaris ZFS community leaders, wrote a wonderful … [Continue reading] about ZFS features: RAID-Z
Did you know: root shell in Solaris 10
As you know, traditionally with older Solaris versions you had to leave /sbin/sh as the default root shell. In Solaris 8 and 9, you're supposed to do this because all the libraries for dynamic linking are in /usr/lib, which could well be on a … [Continue reading] about Did you know: root shell in Solaris 10
What is Solaris Express
I can see quite a few visitors come to my blog asking this question shown in the title of this post. I believe this blog entry will be useful specifically for those of you who only started getting to know Solaris. Solaris Express is the first … [Continue reading] about What is Solaris Express
How-To: Installing Solaris with PXE/DHCP
Next Solaris Express build will probably contain one of the long awaited features: Solaris NewBoot architecture for x86 systems. Among other boot architecture improvements, NewBoot introduces GRUB with ufs support, and a pxegrub for PXE booting. … [Continue reading] about How-To: Installing Solaris with PXE/DHCP
ZFS: filesystem properties
There is quite a number of ZFS filesystems properties, and I will cover most useful ones today. I'll begin with refreshing your knowledge a bit. As I've told before, I'm going to create a number of ZFS filesystems on my server for the next few … [Continue reading] about ZFS: filesystem properties