• AVI to DVD on Linux

    http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=242455 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=117709 http://myzope.kedai.com.my/blogs/kedai/38
  • Solaris LiveCD

    Jorg has released an OpenSolaris based LiveCD http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/06/schillix-is-real-now.html
  • I want one!

    Following on from my now broken grepmaster mug (from http://www.thinkgeek.net), I want one of these: You can buy it here, and see the rest of the stuff here: http://www.cafepress.com/cuddletech[ ]1 All from a new blog find, http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/
  • Solaris still rocks!

    One of my favourite features of Solaris 8 and above is DiskSuite, when igb first showed me the beautiful simplicity of metainit, metattach et al, I was simply blown away (having previously only worked with Windows NT4’s crude mirroring). Last night was a perfect example, we have a Sun E220 with an A1000 � a couple of D1000’s hanging off it, I had been playing with some spare disks and managed to get the metadb (metadb keeps track of what metadevice is built from what physical devices) in a bit of a state, if we ignore the fact that I managed to get the metadbs in a mess, the recovery is remarkable smooth, considering that our local Sun support team could only suggest that we wiped everything � restored from tape.
  • Solaris getting more Windows like?!

    I have a tricky problem on a Solaris/Veritas/Dell-EMC cluster I’m working on. The Solaris machines need to be rebooted twice to be able to use a LUN presented from the SAN. Now I’m not sure where the problem lies, I think the first reboot is for Solaris to see the devices, once you can see the devices you can use EMC’s PowerPath tools (powermt) to determine the managed device for the LUN (this is managed in that powerpath presents you with a virtual device, usually something like /dev/rdsk/emcpowerXX, access to this device is used to load balance access across the physical paths to the SAN, and handle when a path my become unavailable).

    Once the virtual device is there, you then need to put a VTOC on the device so that Veritas Volume Manager can see the device, it can’t use it until you reboot tho’, which is a major grumble. VEA shows the disk as “Not Setup”, it won’t allow you to Initialize the disk until the box has been rebooted.

    After the reboot, VEA will show the disk as “Not Initialized”, you can now use the disk (i.e. Add it to a Disk Group etc)

    The SAN is all Dell/EMC based, which means it runs on Windows, can you imagine the flack I’m getting from the Windows boys over having to reboot twice to use a LUN!

  • Disaster Recovery on Mirrored drives

    Cut’n’paste from orginal sunmanagers posting from here, should also be titled “Why ufsdump’s are still a good thing” Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:29:33 +0000 To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org This is just a quick guide covering something that caught me out recently: Scenario: Solaris 8 We have a couple of E20R’s, all with mirrored system partitions (/, /usr, /var, /opt) We run Legato Networker for our main backups, but I still run