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Repairing a Damaged ZFS Device

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This article describes how to determine ZFS device failure types, clear transient errors, and replace a device.

Repairing a Missing ZFS Device

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If a device cannot be opened, it displays as UNAVAILABLE in the zpool status output.

Solstice DiskSuite Soft Partitions

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SVM provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.

Allocating Sufficient Swap Space

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If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space.

System Global Area (SGA)

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The maximum size of a single shared memory segment is specified by the shmmax (shm_max on Tru64 UNIX) kernel parameter.

Solaris Software Patches

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Patches are identified by unique alphanumeric strings. The patch base code, then a hyphen, and then a number that represents the patch revision number

Tuning a Solaris UFS file system

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Using the tunesfs command you can modify certain parameters after creating the original file system without rebuilding the entire file system.