... I believe that in our case, what matters most is not the package format but the dependencies. S10 and OpenSolaris are very different beasts. Most stuff...
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Rodney Sparapani
docstrangeluv
Sep 11, 2008 9:23 pm
... Oh right, there is no repository for OpenSolaris, just 5.8/5.9/5.10. But, it seems to me that these differences should be automated. The maintainers must...
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Shaw, Kevin
wkshaw
Sep 12, 2008 3:59 pm
All, I would like to build a reliable Solaris 10 system with a ~4tb filesystem as cheap as possible. Could you tell me what H/W you used and why? How did you...
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Carol & Mike Riley
teachskiing
Sep 12, 2008 9:41 pm
... Well the Fry's ad today has a SATA 1TB drive for $149. I would say $600 is pretty cheap for 4TB of disk space. If your case has enough drive slots you ...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Sep 12, 2008 10:29 pm
... ZFS is a good choice even for one drive! I even use it on my USB sticks to get data redundancy. If you (the OP) want ~4TB (note the caps) as cheap as...
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Carol & Mike Riley
teachskiing
Sep 12, 2008 10:39 pm
... It can be used on one drive, but having the redundancy spread across multiple drives is the safest way to do it, since if your single drive fails your...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Sep 12, 2008 11:01 pm
... ZFS doesn't only give you redundancy, it gives you ease of storage management. No more inflexible slices. Once you have used ZFS boot, anything else is...
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Al Hopper
alhopper_com
Sep 13, 2008 1:21 am
... Toms Hardware published a review (today) comparing the current 1Tb disk drives. Makes interesting reading: ...
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Tony Reeves
tonyryh60
Sep 13, 2008 3:12 am
... Yes, but... If you have an app that is a memory hog then ZFS can be a problem (or maybe the app is the problem). Running VirtualBox with 3GB RAM on ZFS...
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Carol & Mike Riley
teachskiing
Sep 13, 2008 5:54 am
... This model in the ad is the WD GreenPower model. Not sure if that is the same as the Caviar Green mentioned in the article or not. I have to wait for my...
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dick hoogendijk
shinshui
Sep 13, 2008 10:27 am
I get a lot of (image) files lately from my daughter. She's got a child. It's very annoying however that files are not named the same. Some are in CAPS others...
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Laurent Blume
laurentelanor
Sep 13, 2008 10:58 am
... Here's one way to do it, while not overwriting an already existing file: export LC_ALL=C for i in *.JPG; do lowername="$(echo ${i} | tr -s '[:upper:]'...
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Gary Schmidt
grschmidt
Sep 13, 2008 12:04 pm
... [SNIP] ... I thought it was 3 for a RAIDZ and 5 for RAIDZ2. I have 4 in my RAIDZ. ... is the ... wait ... system. I put a Green WD in as a replacement for...
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Youri Podchosov
koneuka
Sep 13, 2008 2:28 pm
... In ksh: typeset -l n ; for f in <somepattern>; do n=$f ; mv "$f" "$n"; done -- /ynp...
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Phillip Bruce
okiebruce
Sep 13, 2008 5:52 pm
... Rodney, I have to apologies for my frame of thinking, pkg is the supported version by Sun, but there is rpm's which is rare to see anyone on this list to...
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Shaw, Kevin
wkshaw
Sep 13, 2008 5:58 pm
... sticks ... 5 of ... http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hitachi-western-digital-terabyte,201 7.html ...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Sep 13, 2008 7:47 pm
... Most motherboards have 6 SATA ports these days. Ian....
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Carol & Mike Riley
teachskiing
Sep 14, 2008 4:03 am
... The best support is probably for Marvel, Intel, and nVidia (as I recall), but check the HCL on bigadmin for the latest stuff that is supported, as always. ...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Sep 14, 2008 4:28 am
... If you are willing so stretch you budget, I'd strongly recommend a hot swap SATA cage for the likes of SuperMicro. I have a couple of these: ...
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Adrian Saul
sgtbundy
Sep 14, 2008 9:05 am
I have about 1.3Tb setup under ZFS primarily as storage for a MythTV PVR (works great - setting it up using NFS was much less hassle than dealing with disks in...
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Laurent Blume
laurentelanor
Sep 14, 2008 12:08 pm
... I did a similar setup, but being paranoid (ok, I had bad experiences with disks), I went for RAIDZ2. It feels safer to know that any two disks may fail...
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Adrian Saul
sgtbundy
Sep 14, 2008 2:23 pm
... I am using Solaris 10 - upgraded to Update 4 but I took the binary of the si3124 driver from a build that was made available on the list a while back - I...
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Phil Savoie
psavoie1783
Sep 14, 2008 4:06 pm
Afternoon All, I have a Compaq Pressario DV 6000 Vista Laptop 64 Bit Dual Centrino. I would like to be able, if possible to install S10 on an external 80 GB ...
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John Martin
jmartin_sun
Sep 14, 2008 4:24 pm
... Which Solaris 10 Update? I have installed Solaris Express b96 on a WD MyBook Home Edition 500GB on both a Ultra 24 and Ultra 40 M2. I can boot from this...
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Phil Savoie
psavoie1783
Sep 14, 2008 4:27 pm
... Hi John, I am not interested in opensolaris at this time. My OS of choice would be U4 or U5. Phil...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Sep 14, 2008 6:54 pm
... With mirrors, yes. Ian...
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Phil Savoie
psavoie1783
Sep 14, 2008 7:17 pm
... What I have done is used S10U5. I pulled out the internal drive, plugged in the USB drive and ran the install with the USB drive as the only drive. This...
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Rob McMahon
robfromwarwick
Sep 15, 2008 1:38 pm
... My favorite tool for this is http://search.cpan.org/src/PEDERST/rename-1.4/bin/rename.PL then you can just do rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' * rename...
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rogerfujii
Sep 15, 2008 3:54 pm
... you can't add a disk (yet - they are apparently working on it - http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@.../msg13375.html ) In the meantime,...
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Laurent Blume
laurentelanor
Sep 15, 2008 4:13 pm
... Aaahhhh, that's it! So I remembered correctly. Thank you very much Roger! I'll bookmark that. Laurent -- / Leader de Projet & Communauté | I'm working,...
