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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
In: Solaris

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
In: Solaris

Snow Leopard and madwimax

If you’re one of the Yota’s frustrated users, me is also included, because of lack support for Snow Leopard, then here is a possible solution, though being currently under development, that could possibly make you a bit happier and fill your soul with hope: Download http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml. Download and unzip http://wart.highsecure.ru/madwimax.zip. Uninstall Yota access software/drivers. Plug […]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 2:07 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: Apple · Tagged with: ,

Keynote speech from Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore

If you followed Kernel Conference Australia 2009, also mentioned in my blog here, you’d noticed that not every presentation was available for online visitors and that made me mirthless, since I was so much keen on listening about ZFS and its future, i.e. quota support, dedup, triple raidz, shadow migration, etc. from the creator’s lips. […]

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 10:41 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Oracle’s Exadata innuendo

During todays conference organized by Brocade and called “Brocade Extraordinary Networks 2009”, I couldn’t leave unnoticed a presentation made by Sun Microsystem’s Senior Systems Architect in CIS region Vitaly Soloviev about recently announced Exadata V2. Though I learnt nothing new, there was one thing that drew my attention so now I couldn’t get it out […]

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 11:18 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Oracle, Sun

Two sessions from Java ComunityOne 2009

If you haven’t attended CommunityOne conference then here is a sweat gift from Sun Video blog materialised in “Becoming a ZFS ninja” and “Developing in OpenSolaris: Solaris Device Drivers” presentations driven by Ben Rockwood and Max Bruning respectively. Enjoy.

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 9:50 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Sun’s SPARC CPU Roadmap

Saw it a couple of days ago but recently this “confidential” information has leaked into public. Now it’s clear that so much anticipated and hyped Rock CPU is out of the game.

Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:48 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Sun