HOWTO Repair A Failing ZFS Mirror Disc
A short but very dangerous method for repairing sector errors on a disc to repair a degraded ZFS mirror pool. Read More
Tag: zfs
VMware 2.0 Download Link Broken?
Ok, so VMware server v1.0.8 complained that the virtual server Sun provided for the Sun 7000 series simulator was ‘created by a version with more features’ or something. So, I tried to download the newer version, 2.0. No joy. The page for the download appears to be entirely content free.… Read More
ZFS Gets Good… Maybe
Back in April of 2006, Unicity (my company) took Bill Moore to lunch to chat about ZFS and a storage system idea Sun was working on. We’d met Bryan Cantrill at a presentation he gave on dtrace, which was the new hotness at the time. We were impressed, and stayed… Read More
Happy Green Blocks
Bill Moore came to visit us today. Bill works with Jeff Bonwick on the Solaris kernel, specifically on ZFS, the new uber-filesystem that runs on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It’s still a beta product, really, but it works quite nicely as is. There are all sorts of great features in… Read More