A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Disabling MONLIST in NTP

NTP server prior to version 4.2.7 apparently allows for the user to query the NTP server stat

Troubleshooting ZFS

Most ZFS errors I've experienced generally fall into one of three categories. missing devices, damaged devices and data corruption.

ZFS Recommendations

Because ZFS uses kernel addressable memory, we need to make sure to allow enough system resources to take advantage of its capabilities

ZFS Hardware Maintenance

Once the drive has been physically replaced, run the 'zfs replace' command against the device to allow it to be brought back online.

ZFS Data Protection

ZFS is a transactional file system. For each write request, a copy is made of the specified block protected by Copy-On-Write (COW)

ZFS Dataset Size

A simple entry on how to discover or set the size for a given ZFS dataset as occasionaly we need to increase the size of a ZFS dataset.

ZFS Internals

Max Bruning wrote an excellent paper on how to examine the internals of a ZFS data structure.