Posts Tagged ‘solaris11’
Let me preface this article by stating that this issue is NOT a ZFS issue or a Solaris issue. Previously I documented a issue in which the Crucial M4 SSD would “hesitate” causing ZFS to see it as faulted. This was promptly fixed in v0002 of their firmware. That issue is documented here. This issue [...]
As part of the Solaris 11 Express Installation, you are required to create a named user, which is then the account you can log in as, no root for you. Anyways the problem here is that we had some machines which we subsequently wanted to change the name. Normally this would be simply handled by [...]
A few days ago someone contacted me with an interesting issue with regards to the ZFS automatic snapshots, facilitatedby the time slider service. The Situation OpenSolaris machine with zpool exported. Time slider was working prior to export. Solaris 11 Express fresh install with zpool imported. The Symptoms Basically the core of the issue was that [...]
In our environment ZFS has become a critical component of our Storage Infrastructure. We have been able to provision Fibre Channel storage from our ZFS file systems which give us the benefit of data integrity, deduplication, performance through use of the ARC, L2ARC, and ZIL as needed. Additionally the real benefit to ZFS is our [...]
So let me start out by saying… This isn’t so much of a problem with ZFS, as it is just a problem with the tools available in Solaris (not to mention whatever device actually screwed up the timestamp in the first place). But so here is the story. We have found that migrating our lower [...]