[rescue] 72gb+ Disks in A1000

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:22:06PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
> >Nice things about 10:
> >
> >zones
> 
> Nice, if you have need for them.  However, I have a lot more use for
> Solaris 9 Just Working than I do for them.  Zones are a good start,
> but I use AIX at work.  I'm too spoiled by LPARs to have much interest
> in prissied-up jails.

I intend to make heavy use of them.  So far my few "test" customers
love having full control over a virtual server that zones provide.
Everything in /lib , /usr , /opt etc. is mounted readonly so they
can't really do a lot of damage.

> >dtrace
> 
> That's quite a good thing, I hear.  It's too bad they won't back-port
> it.  They did, after all, make quite a noise about how easy it was to
> implement the kernel-facing side of it.  Coming up with a Really Good
> Feature and expecting people to take the carrot to upgrade and suffer
> other massive lossage is a page out of Microsoft's playbook.

Someone else could backport it I suppose... they did release the
source code already.

> >supposedly better networking stack
> 
> *shrugs*

All I know is they claim that they can get 7Gbps out of a 10Gbps
ethernet card with something like 15% CPU on an Opteron platform.
Marketing to be sure.

> >iSCSI, and iSCSI target mode (maybe in update 1, not sure)
> 
> iSCSI is another solution looking for a problem.  SCSI over network has
> been happening for years with fibre channel.  A need for -routable- SCSI
> over the network is a Big Clue that you've taken a wrong turn a ways
> back.

Create all the topologies and let the market decide.  See
ethernet/FDDI or Betamax/VHS .

> >SMF can be a plus or minus, depending on how you look at it.
> 
> Well, I look at it as SysV init scripts Just Work and are well-
> understood (whether you love or hate them).  They can be deployed solve
> the precedence problem that SMF claims to solve, even if they do require
> it being solved by hand.  That's not a bad thing.  Knowing your system's
> startup procedure is a Good Thing.

I like the idea that you could give someone the ability to start or
restart the service but not be able to stop or disable it using their
RBAC stuff.

> >XML in config files?  Blecch.
> 
> XML is a cancer of the mind.  

Succinct and true.  Unfortunately is has metastasized and is spreading
throughout the computing industry.  Maybe it is Lisp's revenge upon
mortals for using C.

--Patrick