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 […]

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 2:35 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

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 ;-)

Posted on October 18, 2009 at 2:07 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

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 […]

Posted on October 18, 2009 at 1:58 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Life

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, […]

Posted on October 16, 2009 at 9:29 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris, Veritas

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

Posted on October 13, 2009 at 10:47 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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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.

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 1:36 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun

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 […]

Posted on October 8, 2009 at 12:01 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Solaris

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 […]

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 7:15 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 2 Comments
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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!

Posted on October 2, 2009 at 4:52 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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