New -s option for zpool status
With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This b...
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ZFS allocation units
This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It’s nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right th...
You have been warned: Upgrading rpool
In the past customers painted themself into a corner, when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpoo...
Solaris scales
This is a nifty small feature . Tools like ps,df,du, ls,ps,size,prstat and swap have now the option --scale. This makes the output of those tools much more ...
Free the spare pönökels of the world - now!
I’m getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evad...
Limits revisited
There were more limits changed in regard of open files has been changed with as well. The change took place in SRU27. rlim_fd_cur has been increased from ...
Small changes : New open files default.
In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in it’s default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU) the limit of of open file for a user was 256. root@s...