ZFS

ZFS will be finally publicy available in 06/2006 with Solaris 10 update 2. I’m just back from a Sun technical presentation about this new toy. Really impressed! I already played with a Beta release during my Solaris 10 training but some nasty bugs prevented a massive deployment. Now, it will

/. effect!

Today, the Belgian authorities published a video of Joe’s murderers. Belga provided this video on its web site. Immediately, almost all Begian newspapers added a link to the online video (copy is here)… This was a nice /. effect with an average of 18 requests/sec!

Psion forever!

For years, I always took gadgets with me. I owned some Psion, Palm, PocketPC, MobilePhone, … Today, while performing some serious cleanup, I found back my old Psion3a under 5kg of books. Temptation was too big, I put some new batteries and started it. Amazing, the backup battery was dead

BrandZ and audio devices

Ok, now that my lx-zone is running, I faced my first issue: Unable to reboot the zone!? # zoneadm -z delta-lx halt zoneadm: zone ‘delta-lx’: ‘/usr/lib/brand/lx/lx_halt delta-lx’ failed unexpectedly zoneadm: zone ‘delta-lx’: unable to destroy zone bash-3.00# zoneadm -z delta-lx boot zoneadm: zone ‘delta-lx’: zone is already booted # zoneadm

First BrandZ installation

BrandZ is a framework that extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure to create Branded Zones, which are zones that contain non-native operating environments. The term “non-native” is intentionally vague, as the infrastructure allows for the creation of a wide range of operating environments. In my case, I would like to replace

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