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OpenSolaris 2010.02 preview

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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:

UFIX column in IPS "pkg list" command

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This is something that is not documented. If you do "pkg list" in OpenSolaris 2009.06, there is a column with header "UFIX". This stands for:

Apache unreliable in OpenSolaris 2009.06... workaround available!

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Apache 2.2 (Apache's APR actually) has a bug in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 (including Entic.net's OpenSolaris VPS servers) release. The symptom is the web server goes unresponsive and hangs after some time.

OpenSolaris 2009.06 Zones and ZFS

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Don't mess with the the ZFS cloned BE (boot environments) of the zones using zfs commands. There is very little documentation out there, so here is what we've found with ZFS, zones, and IPS upgrades.

Making sense of Solaris distributions (part 2)

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This is an updated version of a similar blog we've written a while back. There are a few different Solaris distributions out there produced both by Sun and the Open source community. Here is a quick run down on the differences. The OS source code is distributed at http://opensolaris.org.