Illumos
I want to deal with flash, SSD and SATA drives connected to a ThinkPad A485 using its USB ports. This is my cheatsheet based on Managing USB Mass Storage Devices on Oracle Solaris 11.2 .Continue reading...
OmniOS / Illumos provides a native way to expose data stored on ZFS using the SMB / CIFS protocol. Furthemore, using zones limits the attack surface of a server ; or a least, the impact of a compromised service.
Long story short: I replaced my UFS+Samba shares with ZFS+Solarish.Continue reading...
Doing some tidying in my network, computers and VPS collection, I went looking for a piece of software that could be used :
at home, as a file server, a backup server and a VM lab. at colloc, as an hypervisor. After looking at SmartOS , I tried OmniOS . It is also based on Illumos . The notes go here.Continue reading...
Doing some tidying in my network, computers and VPS collection, I went looking for a piece of software that could be used :
at home, as a file server, a backup server and a VM lab. at colloc, as an hypervisor. I (re)discovered SmartOS and decided to look at how it would fit or not. I keep my notes here.Continue reading...