Let me preface this article by stating that this issue is NOT a ZFS issue or a Solaris issue. Previously I documented a issue in which the Crucial M4 SSD would “hesitate” causing ZFS to see it as faulted. This was promptly fixed in v0002 of their firmware. That issue…
Installing OpenIndiana in a Xen DomU
So I am on the ground in Dallas and trying to get my head around some of the technologies that we use in my new environment. One of those being the Xen kernel. I have never actually used Xen before, though I have used xenserver a bit. Anyways so my…
Mass Extraction and Creation of Tarballs
I have been working on creating a bunch of debootstrap images lately, and I ended up doing a whole bunch of work creating tarballs and did it wrong. So I took the time to sort out an easy way to fix them all with two commands. The Core of My…
SSH Hop Through Multiple Hosts
I frequently need to ssh through multiple hosts to get to a destination. Frankly this is not really a problem, but there is a simpler way, and I like simpler. This is a really straight forward article, not a lot of explanation is really necessary. Sometimes I need to use…
Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes Redux
This really is an update to my previous article “Linux-KVM: Converting Raw Disk Images to LVM Logical Volumes“, but the process is significantly different and thus requires more explaining than a simple inline update would do it justice. Now the big flaw with my first article was that by using…