January 7th, 2010 by Stargazer
Doing iSCSI targets on ZFS
As ZFS did quite well here – even after messing around with disks, I decided to give it another try. This time I am out to use its features on other systems. But to do so, I need to share it. As I am running virtual machines, it would be nice to have iSCSI shares to (ab)use. So let’s do it by starting the service:
# svcadm enable iscsitgt
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Disk failure and ZFS
January 4th, 2010 by Stargazer
ZFS is a beautiful filesystem – even in case of hardware failures, as it was build to deal with them. Allow me to demonstrate a defective disk on a Raid-Z1 pool. As long as only one disk breaks down, it is still functional – even while rebuilding.
To do the recovery, we need to locate the bad disk, which happens by typing ‘zpool status -x’:
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My first glance at OpenSolaris
December 23rd, 2009 by Stargazer
Today I was having my first glance at OpenSolaris. Getting the ISO burned, booting the LiveCD and all this didn’t take long and the system was booted, welcoming me with a Gnome Desktop environment – which I personally dislike for several reasons – but at least it is something to work with. And don’t forget: Solaris is the system offering ZFS underneath, which should be worth a look. So I clicked the install icon on the desktop and waited for the process to complete.
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