church1e's blog

Writing man pages

19 Oct 2001 5 min(s) 17 sec(s) 682 visits.

Every good program that can be used from the UNIX shell should be documented with a good man page.

29 Sep 2001 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) 2719 visits.

metaview is a simple script to pretty print the metastat output from disksuite showing all metadevices and mirror status side-by-side.

29 Sep 2001 1 min 20 sec(s) 2895 visits.

metatree is a simple awk script that pretty prints the Solstie DiskSuite 'metastat -p' output into a user friendly format.

9 Sep 2001 49 sec(s) 2675 visits.

Witihout using vxedit to change permissions VxVM device files go back to the defaults each time vxconfigd is enabled or the system rebooted.

15 Aug 2001 1 min 44 sec(s) 3762 visits.

This diagram is derived from the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Performance and Tuning course notes. Additional state paths have been added.

15 Aug 2001 2 min(s) 58 sec(s) 3145 visits.

A rate occurrance where VxVM fails where we cannot import a diskgroup due to the Veritas configuration database become corrupt.

23 Jul 2001 1 min 25 sec(s) 2705 visits.

running NSRJB as a non-root user

19 Jul 2001 1 min 48 sec(s) 2551 visits.

Remote Mirror(SNDR/RDC), creates a network based mirror between two raw devices.

19 Jul 2001 2 min(s) 16 sec(s) 2821 visits.

Simply put, the software takes a picture, and then tracks any changes made since the copy is made through the use of a bitmap.

19 Jul 2001 33 sec(s) 2616 visits.

To restart the Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) Software, simply perform the following steps.