I have been doing a bit of cleanup around my home file server, and have noticed that while I have a really beautiful collections of family photographs there is no logical organization around these photos. I have many duplicates names, which would collide in the event of trying to merge…
Adventures in ZFS: Deletion of a Recursive Snapshot Set
Quite often I will find it necessary to create a recursive snapshot over a large number of ZFS file systems. In this case, I find that frequently have little long term need for them, and need a quick and easy way of disposing of the snapshots created without spending large…
Oracle Linux 6: Create an OCFS2 Cluster and Filesystem
Today we are going to go through the process of creating a clustered file system on a pair of Oracle Linux 6.3 nodes. This exercise is not very resource intensive. I am using two VMs each with 1GB of RAM a single CPU and a shared virtual disk file in…
Solaris 11: Installing MySQL
Recently I have been spending some time learning about database technologies (Oracle Databases at Keste as well as MySQL on my own). Part of this I have decided to carry over into my existing work with Solaris, and go through the installation process using the Image Packaging System which is…
Sudo: Setting Up Intelligent Security Policies Part Two
In Part One we went over the basics of sudo, what it is, why we use it, and how it is used properly. In this article we are going to take it a step further and look at specific use cases for sudo. The key thing to remember though, is…