ZFS

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Enterprise Health Check

*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...

Homedirectories

Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...

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...

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...

You have been warned: Upgrading rpool

In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...

Solaris 11.4 and user_reserve_hint_pct

A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...