As I originally blogged, I was hoping to use EMC snapshots to perform server-less/network-less backups…
To make a long story short, Replication Manager is useless for LUNs with ZFS. According to EMC, this won’t change in the near future. PowerSnap also has no support for taking snapshots of LUNs with ZFS on them so basically…

You can make the executable search PATH variable persistent in several ways:

1. On the system level you can …
2. On a per user level, or for the user root, you can …

Recently I started using SmartSVN running remotely on a Solaris 10 server and displaying on my Windows XP machine via Xming (the free Xserver). I quickly ran into some performance and usability issues which I hope to have solved.

There is an apparently known issue with running Java programs via X which causes all sorts…

I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years.
I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me that…

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…