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Category Archives: OpenSolaris
Building a 52TB SAS-2 ZFS array
Storage can be very expensive, especially if you want a lot of it, want flexibility and expandability, but it doesn’t have to be! I’m currently in the process of putting together a new storage system, but because we’re strapped for … Continue reading
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Tagged dell, l2arc, lsi, OpenSolaris, raidz2, sas, sas2, sc847, slog, Solaris, ssd, supermicro, zfs
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OpenSolaris – The Illumos Project
Cross-posted from opensolaris.org A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we’re just about ready to fully disclose our work to, and invite the general participation … Continue reading
OpenSolaris IPS
<rant> Why is IPS so slow? I’m trying to do image-update a fresh install of b131 to b134 which is about 784MB in 90054 files, I get between 20 and 100Kb/sec, so far it’s taken two hours to download 661MB … Continue reading
Compiling Apache HTTP server on OpenSolaris
This may not come as a surprise to many of you, especially the ones who have used OpenSolaris for a long time, but for myself who have only recently started tampering with the Indiana branch of OpenSolaris it took a … Continue reading
Preliminary Text Install Images for b131
Yesterday the OpenSolaris Install team released their first preliminary version of OpenSolaris which is capable of installing without a GUI, meaning entirely text based, this is great news and in due time now that SXCE is being pulled. It should … Continue reading
Quick HOWTO: Sun DHCP daemon
Sun’s own DHCP daemon is not often used for anything besides Jumpstart/PXE boot and SunRay’s presumably because it’s not as well documented and accepted as the ISC DHCP daemon. I recently had a need to quickly setup a DHCP server … Continue reading
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Tagged dhcp, dhcpd, in.dhcpd, OpenSolaris, Solaris
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Nevada: What’s going, what’s staying, what’s changing, what’s not
Allan Coopersmitch has posted a short explanation of what is going on now that SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) will no longer be available past january 2010. There’s been some confusion over the upcoming changes as SXCE ends while Nevada … Continue reading
The death of NIS+
As of OpenSolaris build 130 NIS+ is officially no longer available, refer http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6874309