Monthly Archives: May 2008

PXE / Net booting Open Solaris 200805 release.

Posted on May 24, 2008 by iain

Introduction After the disk in my laptop recently died I decided that it would be a good time to try and install the latest version of Open Solaris onto my laptop. Unfortunately the only option I have for installing new … Continue reading →

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ZFS Compression, when du and ls appear to disagree.

Posted on May 10, 2008 by iain

I have recently been migrated to a new ZFS based home directory at work, I’ve got hourly snapshots of my data and (as I’ve just found it) automatic on disk compression is enabled. Recently, when dealing with a corrupt .tar … Continue reading →

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