Archive for October, 2009
Replacing broken disk in SVM RAID5
It’s ineluctable that one day metacheck script, I strongly encourage you to use it if you don’t, will report a metadevice problem. In nine cases out of ten the root cause will be a failed disk. # metastat d90 d90: RAID State: Needs Maintenance Invoke: metareplace d90 c0t13d0s2 Interlace: 512 blocks Size: 335421567 blocks (159 […]
Studying HDS 9990 and 9985 (THI1570)
Tomorrow I’m leaving to Saint-Pitersburg for 5-days training titled “Installing, Configuring and Maintaining Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V and Universal Storage Platform ™ VM”. Once I’m done with it, my CTS profile will be 100% completed. Not bad at all ;-)
Back to childhood
Having just returned from a child theater (sorry only in Russian) I can’t wait to express the inner fillings that brimmed me. A play, called “A hedgehog in the fog”, was awesome and brilliantly performed. And to tell the truth, sitting there in a dark with my kid on the laps I felt like I […]
Veritas romp
Just came across a really funny piece of code in OpenSolaris. /* * XXX – Don’t port this to new architectures * A 3rd party volume manager driver (vxdm) depends on the symbol romp. * ‘romp’ has no use with a prom with an IEEE 1275 client interface. * The driver doesn’t use the value, […]
Resurrect path_to_inst file
To rescue /etc/path_to_inst file you have two options: echo “#path_to_inst_bootstrap_1” > /etc/path_to_inst; reboot — -r or reboot — -a
Opening keynote of Oracle OpenWorld 2009
I suggest everyone to follow this link to plunge into atmosphere of Oracle’s keynote event kindly presented by Ben Rockwood. Besides that, you’ll receive quite a few of information about Oracle’s take on Sun’s acquisition.
Solaris 10 10/09 hit the road
Without any hype a new Solaris 10 release has seen the light with bunch of glowing features, i.e. caching devices support in ZFS, ZFS user/group quotas, zone parallel patching, callout subsystem enhancements, etc. Please, visit the original “What’s new” document at docs.sun.com for more details. Update. Just have came across a useful link that could […]
Backup and restore Sun Cluster
Imagine for a second, even if it’s extremely unusual situation, that both nodes of your cluster have miserably failed simultaneously because of a buggy component. And now there is a dilemma what to do next: whether to reconfigure everything from scratch or, since you’re a vigilant SA, use the backups. But how to restore cluster […]
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Another video from Australia Kernel Conference
A hilarious video that elates your for the rest of the day even if you’re not from Down Under “How to survive as an Aussie Kernel Engineer” Cheers!