So let me start out by saying… This isn’t so much of a problem with ZFS, as it is just a problem with the tools available in Solaris (not to mention whatever device actually screwed up the timestamp in the first place). But so here is the story. We have…
Adventures in ZFS: Faulted Cache Devices
We recently had an issue with Crucial M4 Solid State Disks when using them with ZFS on Solaris 11 Express (snv_151a). Basically the disks were showing a whole bunch of write errors and had been “FAULTED” by ZFS. Now to make this problem even worse when we tried to zfs…
Solaris 11: Mount SMB Share Locally
Currently I have been working on a method of migrating some of our data from Windows file servers to Solaris ZFS CIFS servers, of course trying to retain as much feature parity as possible. Permissions are an issue, however I have worked through most of those issues (look for this…
ZFS: Delegate ZFS Permissions
It is widely accepted as best practice to not use your root account in general. In Solaris they like some Linux distributions have gone so far as to prevent root access to SSH. Now we could go the route of permitting route logins to SSH however this would not be…
ZFS: Clone Management
In our previous article “ZFS: Snapshot Management” we learned about the many methods of using snapshots to give you a shorter path to recovery as well as reduce the time needed to revert changes that need to be reversed. Today we will discuss clones, which are essentially a copy-on-write duplicate…