Recently I’ve been migrating my old Blogger content to WordPress. I’ve been considering this ever since Blogger announced it’s new layout / format which required hosting the blog on their servers. Finally I found the energy to tackle the beast but quickly hit my first obstacle- how to import the old Blogger posts.

Recently I created my first ZFS clones but quickly realized that there was no simple way to tell the clones from the regular filesystems. My first instinct was to run ‘zfs list -t clone’ similar to ‘zfs list -t snapshot’ but this didn’t work. Maybe it works in newer versions of ZFS.

After some poking…

Static routes are a very common necessity once your networks become even a little complex. Whether you need to route specific traffic over a VPN or setup specific test addresses for IPMP failover, static routes are indispensable. For many years the “correct” way of configuring static routes in Solaris has been to create an…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on a T2000 with a Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) inside. The machine gave lots of problems. One of the issues was the following message which the machine logged hundreds if not thousands of times: Oct 23 22:18:27 hostname fmd: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L,…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on two T2000 machines and was extremely surprised to find a serious bug with the fmd (Fault Management Daemon) service. The service would, seemingly at random, fail to start on boot. It wouldn’t actually fail though- it just never finished starting. This caused numerous side effects including that prtdiag,…