Comments on: Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production!

By: chetanM

chetanM — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:46:45 +0000

Cool , Is that possible to launch EC2-ami of Open+Solaries WITH mysql MASTER+SLAVE

By: ronaldo

ronaldo — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:14:41 +0000

mmm…thanks..

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:30:46 +0000

That is a pretty awesome setup. I thought that ext4 and LVM 2 were flexible, but it sounds like they're nothing compared to ZFS. I use RAID for personal use, mostly just backups and media storage. Just wondering how easy it is to setup a ZFS solution for personal use? If anybody is interested, I have a tutorial showing how to setup RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 or 10 on Linux with a GUI. This is a nice tutorial for novices to the open source world.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:04:07 +0000

I'd also like to here more about the issues with the MD3000.

By: David Halko

David Halko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:54:38 +0000

No joke!

I want OpenSolaris (with X) on an appliance with 128 Meg of RAM (no, I can't swap memory chips!)… like the original release of Solaris 10.

By: David Halko

David Halko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:48:58 +0000

I sympathize greatly.

Having made the persona migration from BSD to SVR4 when moving to another vendor's UNIX platform, moving back to Solaris has been VERY nice, since I have the option of enjoying the best of both (BSD & SVR4) worlds now.

By: David Halko

David Halko — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:44:14 +0000

When running as "root", the /usr/ucb/ps is nice since it will give you VERY LONG command lines, that are (unfortunately) unavailable using the /usr/bin/ps

$ ps -eo user,pid,stime,args | nawk '!/nawk/ && /ivserver/ && Count<1 { Count+=1 ; print }'
root 16599 Dec_31 /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/bin/ivserver -m /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/data/manage

$ /usr/ucb/ps -auxww | nawk '!/nawk/ && /ivserver/ && Count<1 { Count+=1 ; print }'
root 16599 0.5 1.4462144427136 ? S Dec 31 522:01 /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/bin/ivserver -m /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/data/manage

# /usr/ucb/ps -auxww | nawk '!/nawk/ && /ivserver/ && Count<1 { Count+=1 ; print }'
root 16599 0.5 1.3464640417320 ? S Dec 31 522:02 /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/bin/ivserver -m /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/data/manager_iv2.db -c /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/data/collector_iv2.db -print /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/log/collector_iv2.log -ep 42119 -lrip 0.0.0.0 -lrport 0 -rc /opt/InfoVista/Essentials/init/InfoVista_iv2

I used the ucb version of PS since Solaris 1.x days – I wish Solaris 2.x would fix this so as to allow the super-wide output available under the ucb version!

Until Solaris supports an equivalent of "ww" on the output line, there will always be a need for /usr/ucb/ps

By: Andre

Andre — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:56:58 +0000

"Dell MD3000 w/15 x 15K SCSI disks and mirrored 512MB battery-backed write caches (these are really starting to piss us off, but that’s another post…)"

Any brief comments about the issues you were having with those MD3000s please? Thanks in advance!

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Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:11:22 +0000

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By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:03:36 +0000

As a Linux user, you may not like the Solaris userspace commands, but we Solaris users loath the Gnu ones.