Archive | zfs

27 February 2013 ~ Comments Off

Mount NFS 4 shares from OSX

This is one of those things that goes to show: it's easy if you know how. I've got a zfs-based file server (currently using SmartOS) which uses NFSv4 shares. OSX can connect to NFS shares using "Connect To Server" from the finder" using a syntax like this: nfs://nas.example.com/share_name I've previously tried to use on my… Continue reading

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05 September 2012 ~ Comments Off

SUNWjet: Add a slice 7 to a zpool’s disk

According to Oracle’s documentation, if you want to use SUNWjet to jumpstart a server with a ZFS Root pool and a slice 7 to put metadb on, you must first parition your drives and then launch the jumpstart.
This is particularly annoying as two opera…

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09 June 2011 ~ Comments Off

ZFS Fragmentation issue – examining the ZIL

During the past days, I’ve been troubleshooting some Zpools with heavy databases usage.
The issue reported by the customer was a huge performance decrease after the last reboot
of the cluster. The issue has been finally troubleshooted and has been iden…

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02 May 2010 ~ Comments Off

Solaris SUN Cluster: Live update

As I’ve recently tried the patching of a sun cluster with Zones/ZFS/global filesystem and everything running,
I’ve noticed that not so much people have tried this, so I might share the experience here ;)

So read the complete article to see how it beh…

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16 December 2009 ~ Comments Off

Solaris fnu

à $WORK je réinstalle des Solaris 10, et il y a des petits trucs qui font que l’environnement n’est pas directement convivial, surtout quand on a l’habitude d’une debian où il y a mass wrappers. Heureusement, le dernier né de tonton iMil est dispo et fonctionne du tonnerre. De même, il n’y a pas de [...]

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