Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-29:	Solaris is not open source
2009-12-02:	The problem with the OpenSolaris source repository
2009-11-30:	Poking around the OpenSolaris codebase (for sysadmins)
2009-11-21:	An update on faulted ZFS spares
2009-10-12:	ZFS GUIDs vs device names
2009-10-08:	What is going on with faulted ZFS spares
2009-10-07:	A brief introduction to ZFS (disk) GUIDs
2009-09-23:	A brief overview of the Solaris 10 nvpair library
2009-09-14:	Listing file locks on Solaris 10
2009-09-12:	My opinions on when you should let ZFS handle RAID stuff
2009-09-11:	Why you should let ZFS handle the RAID stuff
2009-09-10:	What I know about how ZFS actually handles spare disks
2009-08-28:	ZFS changes filesystem device numbers on reboot
2009-08-02:	Limitations on custom NFS mount authorization on Solaris
2009-07-30:	How we do custom NFS mount authorization on Solaris 10
2009-07-10:	An unpleasant surprise about ZFS scrubbing in Solaris 10 U6
2009-06-22:	Solaris 10 NFS server parameters that we change and why
2009-06-12:	What I know about Solaris 10 NFS server file lock limits
2009-05-15:	Why `df` on an NFS-mounted ZFS filesystem can give odd results
2009-05-05:	How we periodically scrub our ZFS pools
2009-04-16:	What causes the ZFS file deletion problem with snapshots
2009-04-15:	The problem with Solaris 10 update 6's ZFS `failmode` setting
2009-03-16:	An important gotcha with iSCSI multipathing in Solaris 10
2009-03-06:	What can keep a ZFS pool busy and prevent it from exporting
2009-03-02:	Some gotchas with ZFS in Solaris 10 update 6
2009-02-04:	An alarming ZFS status message and what is usually going on with it
2009-02-02:	A grumpy remark about Solaris's scalability
2009-02-01:	Understanding ZFS cachefiles in Solaris 10 update 6
2009-01-27:	My wishes for Sun's online documentation
2009-01-26:	My reaction to Solaris 10 update 6's ZFS changes
2009-01-08:	The `ufsdump` block size doesn't seem to matter much

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