Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sun. Show all posts

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Dear Jane letter to Sun E6900



Dear Sun Microsystems E6900,

I'm terribly sorry I had to do this through a letter, this didn't need to be done, but I wanted to..

This note will be the last memory you'll ever have of me, I'm done with you because I decided to be with someone new, exciting and 1/4 the weight. Yes, she's a "sexy new-younger model" and is way more interesting.

I should have been honest from the start of this relationship and admitted that you where really too tall for my tastes, anyway. My bad.

Don't let it get you all upset inside, It was completely your fault, no doubt about it. It is because of your history of dragging your ass, taking too much of my personal space and your high maintenance issues, that keep me from being even remotely interested in continuing this relationship with you.

I will be particularly found of the memories of having to hold you late at night, while you wept about not having enough resources, or the numerous times that your thieving nephew, Oracle, would steal your personal space away from you. Why you can't learn from your past mistakes, is beyond me. I'll remember how you would "forget" to do the tasks we agreed upon, and blame it on your failing-aging memory.

You'd be much better off finding someone that can deal with the wonderful way that you make constant promises that you never intended on keeping. I'm not one to "kiss and tell", but I might miss certain things about you, such as your constant nagging for attention. No. It isn't ALL about you, dear. There are others in this family, to consider. What about your poor little sun, V1280? Have you considered his needs? Your brothers and sisters: V490, 280R and let's not forget the black sheep of your family: V120 and his half-inbred daughter V100. They all have needs too and your narcissism is hurting them, so much.

I'm glad this is done and we're going separate directions for good. I think you'll find someone to tend to your constant needs for attention, who doesn't mind carelessly spending their money on your "upkeep" (yes. You ARE one "high Maintenance" lady) and hopefully, we will be incredibly far away.

Forever Truly Yours,
Wrex

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Resistance Is Futile....

So the acquisition of Sun by Oracle is complete and today, they've changed Sun's homepage to re-direct to Oracle's. Good luck finding Sun specific products, rofl.

The customer is always last. They should have at least announced an impending change to the site. It's not like we didn't all expect one.

My Unix beginnings are all due to Sun Microsystems. I am a touch saddened by the buy-out.

The end of an era. Here's hoping for the best.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Just a quick note about mounting ZFS resource in a non-global zone...

This is in response to a question that was posted in the SUN Solaris Experts group on LinkedIn:

I keep running into people who think that you have to reboot a non-global zone to add a ZFS mountpoint. Not true.

After you add the zfs resource to your zone.xml (use zonecfg, if you follow recomendation, heh) you perform the following on the Global Zone (not within the non-global zone). Be sure to define the type as "legacy":

root@global-zone# mount -F zfs your_zpool/your_filesystem_name /zones/non_global_zonename/root/your_mountpoint

Log into your zone and you should now see the new filesystem (DF or whatever).

Monday, November 02, 2009

ZFS Deduplication Is In!

If you've been waiting (as I have) for Dedup capability in ZFS, then the wait is close to over. See Jeff Bonwick's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/zfs_dedup

I can't wait to test it, as soon as I can find out how to get my hands on it, lol. It's not in Sol10 update 8, nor is it in the most recent snapshot of OpenSolaris, but I suspect it will be out soon.

Edit:

Seems my rss feed is slow. It's currently in OpenSolaris, as of last night!
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2009-November/010683.html