I’m closing the blog, but the notes are staying. A last word on Solaris, the work, and what comes next.
Read article ↗SOLARIS.WTF · PRESSY’S NOTES
Sometimes you just
have to ask wtf.
What the fuck is this machine doing? That question kept me busy for years. Here’s what I learned about Solaris, SPARC, storage and the things around them.
The blog and the old wiki now live here together. Same notes, fewer moving parts.
Straight to the useful bits.
Commands, fixes and things I kept forgetting.01 / FIELD NOTES
All articles and field notes ↗ZFS ↗
Cache limits, pools and the commands you need when storage gets weird.
02 / FIELD NOTESSolaris zones ↗
Notes on getting zones running, keeping them tidy and fixing the awkward bits.
03 / FIELD NOTESSPARC & LDOMs ↗
Working notes for the hardware that just keeps going.
04 / FIELD NOTESNetworking ↗
Links, interfaces and the usual “why can’t these two talk?” questions.
05 / FIELD NOTESServices & SMF ↗
Find out what stopped, why it stopped and how to get it running again.
06 / FIELD NOTESInside the system ↗
MDB commands for the times when the error message tells you almost nothing.
A few stories from the terminal.
The blog, including one last goodbye.Great News About Extended Support for Oracle Solaris
Solaris got more time. A quick look at Oracle’s support extension and what it meant for the systems still running it.
Read article ↗Petabyte arrived
My first ZS9 installation. We’re counting storage in petabytes now. That still feels a bit strange.
Read article ↗First „free“ Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE
A free Solaris 11.4 build for trying things out. Here’s why the CBE release was good news for anyone without a support contract.
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