SUN Ultra 10 anyone?!

Posted by Doomshammer on Wednesday, April 29. 2009 at 18:42 in Computer, Linux/Unix, Privat
Ich haette da noch eine abzugeben :-)
Hier klicken um zur eBucht zugelangen.

SUN wants to sue back against NetApp

Posted by Doomshammer on Thursday, October 25. 2007 at 11:00 in Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Thoughts, Web

As you might have read in blogs or on newssites, NetApp sued SUN, as they are infringing patents of NetApp (at least, this is what NetApp is saying). Now NetApp pushed SUN to unfree the ZFS filesystem and to only sell it with some properitary storages. This is of course a big slap into the face of the open source community and against all users of ZFS (including the whole FreeBSD community, who ported ZFS to their OS).

Now Jonathan writes in this blog (as usual his blog entry has a sassy URL again ;-) ), that SUN is not going to agree with NetApps allowances and that they'll use their patents to defend and protect their innovations and the open source community. From my sight, a very nice move of SUN as it's good to know, that the open source community has a big player in their rows.

I personally hope that this battle can be fought without lawsuits and that both sides can find a solution that it good for either.

SUN shared shell

Posted by Doomshammer on Wednesday, April 25. 2007 at 11:39 in Anwendungen, Arbeit, Computer, English only, Privat, Thoughts, Web

Wow! Pretty neat tool! Just tried it and it's really cool. I know "screen" can act similar, but not with the different access levels. Nion just told me that I'm wrong- though the shared shell has a big advantage. Think of this scenario:. You have a problem with your local machine that doesn't has a public IP. You have strict firewall rules and don't want any port forwarding running on it. With the shared shell this is not a problem at all. You don't have to open the firewall nor do you have to create an account for the support guy (so he can log in to join your screen session).

(via c0t0d0s0)

Deb-Ian

Posted by Doomshammer on Monday, March 26. 2007 at 13:04 in Fun

ELER about Ian Murdock's job at SUN
*rofl* ;-)

Sun Solaris 10 Media Kit Program

Posted by Doomshammer on Tuesday, March 20. 2007 at 19:51 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Thoughts
The SUN Solaris 10 Media Kit, which I ordered (for free) about one ago, arrived today. A nice DVD jewel case with 3 DVDs in it.

- 1 x Solaris 10 11/06 SPARC architecture
- 1 x Solaris 10 11/06 x86/x64 architecture
- 1 x SUN Studio 11 / Java Studio / Net Beans

Pretty cool. Thanks a lot SUN! I'll find some good places to use these DVDs :-)

Dtrace

Posted by Doomshammer on Saturday, February 3. 2007 at 01:36 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Privat, Thoughts
I've done my first steps in SUN's Dtrace today and I have to admit that it is a very mighty tool. It took me less than 7 lines to create a "strace/truss" like example script (taken from the very good documentation). Very interessting stuff. When I've got some spare time, I think I'll have a closer look at the D-language and will lear working with Dtrace (I didn't get further than page 40 or so ;-) )

ZFS and "Poor Man's Thumper"

Posted by Doomshammer on Friday, February 2. 2007 at 21:15 in Computer, English only, Fun, Linux/Unix
Whatever these guys smoked... I want the same! ;-)




(via EDV)

I love ZFS :)

Posted by Doomshammer on Tuesday, January 9. 2007 at 19:31 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Privat, Thoughts
Today I got two new hard discs for my local file server (thanks to my mate Tommy for the discs :-) ). So I quickly mounted them into the case of my server and booted the box.

As expected the discs were dected as well by the BIOS as by SunOS. So all I had to do, was adding them to my current ZFS data pool- which was done in less than two minutes.

Verify the OS detected the discs:
QUOTE:
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1d0 <DEFAULT cyl 15014 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
1. c1d1 <drive type unknown>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0
2. c2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 15014 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@1/cmdk@0,0
3. c2d1 <drive type unknown>
/pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@1/cmdk@1,0

There we are... c1d1 and c2d1 are the new discs (currently w/o label, that's why the drive type is unknow)

Check the pool status:
QUOTE:
# zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1d0s5 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2d0s5 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1d0s4 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2d0s4 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

# zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
data 76.8G 26.3G 50.5G 34% ONLINE -

Everything's fine- as expected :-)

Add the new discs to the data pool:
QUOTE:
# zpool add data mirror c1d1 c2d1


Done! Now have a quick look, if everything has been added and that's it!
QUOTE:
# zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1d0s5 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2d0s5 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1d0s4 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2d0s4 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1d1 ONLINE 0 0 0
c2d1 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

# zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
data 153G 26.3G 126G 17% ONLINE -


Great! Isn't it?!

ZFS vs. VxFS

Posted by Doomshammer on Thursday, January 4. 2007 at 17:59 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix

In his blog, Joerg Moellenkamp points to an interessting Benchmark. ZFS vs. Veritas' VxFS. Have a look at it- it's worth reading.

ZFS as kinda "version control system"

Posted by Doomshammer on Friday, December 22. 2006 at 23:26 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Thoughts
Here Joerg Moellenkamp developed an idea for using ZFS as kind of "version control system" e. g. for a website. IMHO a pretty neat idea!

ZFS compression and filesystem cache

Posted by Doomshammer on Tuesday, December 19. 2006 at 19:12 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Privat, Thoughts
Even if the data I used in this example isn't reasonable, the result is pretty impressive though:
Creation of a 1 GiB file w/o zfs compression/filesystem cache:

QUOTE:
[root@exitus ~pgsql]# time mkfile 1g foo.1g
mkfile 1g foo.1g 0.07s user 7.81s system 8% cpu 1:27.90 total


After doing a "zfs set compression=on data/postgresql":

QUOTE:
[root@exitus ~pgsql]# time mkfile 1g foo.1g
mkfile 1g foo.1g 0.07s user 7.27s system 58% cpu 12.632 total


More CPU usage (by the filesystem cache) but the write operation was 6 times faster as it was performed in memory before the physical write operation has been performed.

Playing around with zfs

Posted by Doomshammer on Tuesday, December 19. 2006 at 11:26 in Anwendungen, Computer, English only, Linux/Unix, Privat, Thoughts
I am currently playing around with ZFS on my SunOS File Server. ZFS is a new developed file system (initially called: Zettabyte File System). ZFS is an easy to administer but mighty file system. Find the basic administration guide here.

I just created a ZFS for my /data directory. It is pretty easy, as the zfs commands do everything needed by theirselfs. Just do s. th. like this to create a pool: "zpool create <name> mirror c1d0s5 c2d0s5" (I created the zfs on a slice, as I don't have two additional disks in that server to accomplish the recommended creation over a entire disk). And there you are. Zpool checks the disks, creates a filesystem and mounts the newly created file system. No I created a sub-filesystem for my user with a quota of 35GiB which is pretty simple as well. "zfs create <name>/doomy; zfs set quota=35G <name>/doomy" and you are ready to go. Impressive! I'm going to play around a bit more with it and will let you know about my experiences (if I'll get some ;-) ).

64$ question

Posted by Doomshammer on Wednesday, May 11. 2005 at 15:44 in Computer, English only

A SUN v20z delivered directly by SUN Microsystems wasn't able to detect this harddisc. Now! The six-four-dollar-question is: Why? ;-)

Sonne! Mach mich Neger!

Posted by Doomshammer on Sunday, May 1. 2005 at 12:23 in Privat

Isses nicht geil? Mein Firefox-Forcast Plugin hat gestern schon vorausgesagt, dass es heute 28°C werden sollen.. Nunja und ich denke es hatte Recht :-)

Linux, Raid-1, Cheetah, Geil!

Posted by Doomshammer on Monday, March 7. 2005 at 14:50 in Arbeit, Linux/Unix

Ich hab auf der SUN v20z gerade mal aus den zwei Platten ein RAID-1 gebaut. In der Kiste haengen zwei Seagate Cheetah 10K.6 (ST373307LC).

Calendar

Back July '10 Forward
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
      1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31  

Quicksearch

Not for Sale!

This blog is not for sale!

Latest twitter

Latest Photos

Sun | Set

OutOf | MyHotel

Chic | ken!



Friend | Ship

Getaggte Artikel

Buttons

Ich bin ein Dokuleser
Get OpenSolaris
Gimme a Smile
neessen.net - Webhosting
I'm a blogger!
Lebst Du noch oder oarks Du schon?
last.fm
trnd - be trendy
I hear Metal
Visit GeoURL
Powered by Linux
Zsh lover
VIM! The Editor
Get Firefox
Ihr, nicht ich!
My amazon wishlist

BLOGROLL