It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I really like ZFS. Personally I think it is one of the biggest developments in file system design in many many years. One place where I’ve started to use it recently on my own home server is to make instant and consistent backups […]
If you know about OpenBSD (and you really should, it is a great OS) you may also know that one of their slogans are “Secure by Default” which now also Solaris is adopting. OpenBSD is one of the few operating systems you can put directly on the Internet and be quite sure that I won’t […]
SMF (Service Management Facility) was introduced in Solaris 10 and it radically changed how you work with services. Gone are the old SysV scripts but they still work and not all services that are shipped with Solaris 10 is converted yet. If you have been a UNIX admin for a while they will feel foreign […]
