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IPF config edition

Laurent Blume — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:41:31 GMT

Hello all, I know there are some IPF config file editor around, does someone have first-hand experience with any? I'd like something reliable to run on S10.

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Patch Nag — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:35:22 GMT

119575-02 Obsoleted by: 140861-01 SunOS 5.10_x86: su patch

unable to create new boot environment

iaswingkid — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:27:47 GMT

I am trying to create a new boot environment on a Solaris 10 u6 machine that was previously UFS. i migrated it a while back to a ZFS root filesystem.

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

iaswingkid — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:18:58 GMT

Well, how much cheaper? I'm always surprised when people look at initial cost as the only factor, although it's fairly common. Initial cost is usually one of

Re: Sun J4200 SATA interposer and Solaris

Adrian Saul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:43:35 GMT

I saw references to a PSARC case for it and some bugs to track it, but they were not public. Be nice to have - I would rather add some external disks on my

Re: Solaris disk confusion ?

Adrian Saul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:24:31 GMT

Is there possibly something sitting in /etc/zfs/zpool.cache that is causing format to believe it is in use? Try running strings and grepping for the disks in

Re: Solaris disk confusion ?

John Taylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:11:09 GMT

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Jeremy Kister ... was this disk ever used in either of the zpools, possibly as a spare? ... it does ... have you tried a

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

Rodney Sparapani — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:19:11 GMT

... Right. Stata is pretty bad in this regard. They didn't fix anything, although, we did find workarounds (that just means the next guy will call them as

Re: Solaris disk confusion ?

John D Groenveld — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:49:16 GMT

... I had ZFS on S10U8 get very confused by which disks were really part of the rpool. zpool status was claiming it was comprised of a disk which I know didn't

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

John Taylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:19:42 GMT

... Well, the way it gets fixed is to report the issues to the vendors and try and get some action either in the form of updated packages, or update

Re: Sun J4200 SATA interposer and Solaris

Carol & Mike Riley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:13:49 GMT

... It was factual when I was let go from Sun in 2008. Not sure if they don't support multipliers still or not. Even if they do now, the system was probably

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

Rodney Sparapani — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:10:33 GMT

... It's not just Oracle. I had installation issues with Stata and Mathematica. Clearly, Solaris 10 x86 has not seen much testing by software vendors.

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

John Taylor — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:02:25 GMT

2009/11/3 Matthias Pfützner ... Well, I'm not a DBA, but have to support them in our environment. Recently, they installed 10gR2 on a

Re: Sun J4200 SATA interposer and Solaris

Adrian Saul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:11:56 GMT

I would hazard a guess that it is because Solaris does not yet support SATA port multipliers so there is no pure SATA way to connect. The SAS interposer

Re: MEDIA: Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer

Matthias Pfützner — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:41:41 GMT

... And: Oracle raised priority of Solaris x64. Quote from Metalink 742060.1: Oracle has elevated the Solaris x86-64 to equal priority with SPARC Solaris for