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How to mount a loopback file system to a running Solaris 10 zone (i.e. container) from the global zone. In the example below, I’m mounting the the lofs file system as read-only so the Non-global zone cant modify the contents. Assumptions: 1. Global zone name: global 2. Non-global zone name: ngzname 3. Disk you want […]
How to grow a ZFS Volume. Assume the following is true: Pool Name: fort Volume Name: vol1 Mount Point: /mnt/vol1 1. Display file system mount status Notice its 1Gig in size (962M formatted). 2. Display current ZFS volume size and reservation properties Confirms the volume is 1Gig in size with a 1Gig reservation. 3. Change […]
Here is a list of my all time favorite passwords I like to use for all my banking accounts, email accounts, and anything else that requires a password. I figure I’d save the bad guy the time of running through a normal dictionary attack and provide them here instead. Without further ado, here is my […]
Jeff Bonwick talks about ZFS Deduplication: You knew this day was coming: ZFS now has built-in deduplication. If you already know what dedup is and why you want it, you can skip the next couple of sections. For everyone else, let’s start with a little background. Read more about it at http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup.
I recently came across the need to mount a new file system to a Solaris 10 non-global zone without rebooting the actual zone. There are other ways to accomplish this same task but most of the solutions I’ve found required rebooting the non-global zone. Unfortunately, we could not take an outage by rebooting the non-global […]
I came across a post on http://lifehacker.com titled “How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password with BackTrack“. The article itself is good but one of the comment by commenter “MaribelAlligator” made a lot of sense. “I like to use the analogy of door locks. WEP is closest to a bathroom or bedroom lock (the […]