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Couple of nice commands, hope this helps someone.
root@vps2:/# /usr/sbin/cfgadm -al -s "select=type(disk),cols=ap_id:info"
Ap_Id Information
c0::dsk/c0t8d0 LSILOGIC Logical Volume
c0::dsk/c0t15d0 SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G
c0::dsk/c0t16d0 SEAGATE ST914602SSUN146G
c0::dsk/c0t18d0 HITACHI H101414SCSUN146G
c0::dsk/c0t19d0 HITACHI H101414SCSUN146G
root@vps2:/#
OR
root@vps1:~# /usr/sbin/raidctl -l
Controller: 7
Disk: 0.0.0
Disk: 0.1.0
Disk: 0.2.0
Disk: 0.3.0
Disk: 0.4.0
Disk: 0.5.0
root@vps1:~# raidctl -l -g 0.2.0 7
Disk Vendor Product Firmware Capacity Status HSP
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0.2.0 SEAGATE ST973401LSUN72G 0556 68.3G GOOD N/A
root@vps1:~#
You can of course get all of this using prtconf -v as well.
Google mission is to organize the world's information. With Google now offering free public DNS service, this adds another set of tools for them to do just that and more.
What can Google learn from users of its DNS service?
Google would be able to figure out where you geographically are located at (even when you aren't using their Google search engine). How often you are on line. What web sites you visit. How often you visit them (e.g. would be able to tell how many people are using Hotmail or Yahoo mail instead of Gmail). Could it intentionally delay performance of lookups for say Hotmail?
Now, let's assume that Google decides to use it's own DNS servers on these Chrome OS netbooks. Instant big brother monitoring capabilities for thousands and thousands of unsuspecting users. What do you guys think?
These graphs show the "opensolaris" search term popularity in Google. The spikes seem to correlate with the OpenSolaris releases: 2008.05, 2008.11, 2009.06. Over the last few months though, the searches seem to have gone down quite a bit. Perhaps further evidence EU's delayed decision is coming into play here.
OpenSolaris's next release (and the ZFS de-duplication awesomeness) should make it much more closer to LTS ready and boost it's popularity much further than ever before. Of course, we're just hoping. In our business, we are very much dependent on OpenSolaris's future.
One of the biggest features that'll be part of 2010.02 is the ZFS de-duplication. But, here is a quick run down of all the things we're watching here:
* Solaris 10 branded zones
* Crossbow updates, better accounting performance
* ZFS enhancements: de-duplication, pool recovery, raidz3
* Integrated L2/L3 load balancer
* Major bug fixes introduced with non STREAMS network stack in 2009.06
As mentioned in a previous blog, you can follow these links to find the release notes for all the major pieces:
X related:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/x_win/changelogs/
OS/Net related:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/
You can also get a Heads up (highlights of some major changes that go in) here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/
OpenSolaris release schedule:
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+on/schedule