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Veritas File System (VxFS) Y2K Info

5 Aug 1999 1 min 6 sec(s) 3119 visits.

Y2000 Compliance requires patched version 3.2.5 or later. The patched versions are down-loadable free of charge from the following ftp sites.

21 May 1999 1 min 15 sec(s) 2617 visits.

There is a rather nasty bug in Vxfs 3.3.1 that appears to manifest itself into a backup problem.

26 Apr 1999 1 min 45 sec(s) 2548 visits.

A metatrans device is identical to any other kind of metadevice. In order to configure the device it is assumed there is a free slice on each disk.

26 Apr 1999 2 min(s) 57 sec(s) 2462 visits.

Sun's Fast Ethernet card is one of the most commonly encountered pieces of hardware on a Solaris system. Internally nicknamed happy meal.

29 Mar 1999 1 min 9 sec(s) 3514 visits.

Overwriting a disk with the format command is usually enough for most purposes, because it greatly reduces the chance that any data can be recovered.

26 Mar 1999 28 sec(s) 2555 visits.

Sun StorEdge A5x00 disk arrays require a minimum number of disks to be installed and placed in certain slots to ensure proper operation of the array.

12 Jul 2002 2 min(s) 42 sec(s) 2454 visits.

This article provides a quick reference guide to the supported disk configuration on a Sun StorEdge A5x00 storage array.

19 Feb 1999 1 min 41 sec(s) 2579 visits.

The st.conf is the configiuration file for the st (SCSI Tape) driver on the Solaris Operating System.

5 Jan 1999 11 sec(s) 2613 visits.

Ever needed to get Solaris to detect disks; the method depends on the version of Solaris. This article provides a how to

4 Jan 1999 1 min 24 sec(s) 2919 visits.

At first glance the answer this is not straight forward, but the answer is quite simple; Using two commands mminfo and nsrinfo we get the results.