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Questions tagged [opensolaris]

Please consider the tag [OpenIndiana] instead of [OpenSolaris] since OpenSolaris is no longer an active project. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.

OpenSolaris was based on Solaris, which was originally released by Sun in 1991. Solaris is a version of UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4), jointly developed by Sun and AT&T to merge features from several existing Unix systems. It was licensed by Sun from Novell to replace SunOS.

OpenSolaris is a descendant of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4) code base developed by Sun and AT&T in the late 1980s. It is the only version of the System V variant of UNIX available as open source. OpenSolaris is developed as a combination of several software consolidations that were open sourced subsequent to Solaris 10. It includes a variety of free software, including popular desktop and server software. Sun has announced that future versions of its commercial Solaris operating system will be based on the OpenSolaris project.

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Advantage of using nexenta vs. OpenSolaris

I am currently building a NAS for about 24 TB of storage. Video files, slow access, long term storage. No performance issues. I am currently undecided between buying a JBOD case and installing OpenSolaris (because of ZFS), or purchasing a Nexenta…
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OpenSolaris livecd, NForce NIC driver, and NTFS USB mounting

I'm attempting to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my server. Before I do I would like to test that everything works and am running in to problems. It has an Abit AN-M2 motherboard with an NForce chipset. The driver config utility says that I need a…
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SMF restarting service whenever there's output?

I'm trying to add a custom service to SMF's configuration, which seems successful in that the service starts and there is a log file, but therein lies the problem; the service, on start-up, prints some logging messages to the stderr. It seems that…
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On Solaris, how do you mount a second zfs system disk for diagnostics?

(Cross posted from Stack Overflow 1) I've got two hard disks in my computer, and have installed Solaris 10u8 on the first and Opensolaris 2010.3 (dev onnv_134) on the second. Both systems uses ZFS and were independently created with a zpool name of…
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I need an OpenSolaris/Solaris book or documentation recommendation, performance/internals related

Can anyone recommend a good book or set of documents specifically about what OpenSolaris or Solaris is doing internally? I was reading this post and saw a comment that said "On Solaris it was/is even more involved. The swap file is mirrored in …
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OpenSolaris won't authenticate to OpenLDAP users with md5 passwords

I have an OpenSolaris machine here; I'm using it for the first time because I want to try out ZFS. ZFS itself is working great, but I cannot get opensolaris to authenticate against our openldap directory running on Linux with md5 or sha passwords;…
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memory Stuck in Solaris can't free memory

I am Working On Solaris 11, Now facing problem related to memory As my root is reached to 90%, I have deleted the audit file from /var/share/audit which is of 8 GB after deleting the file,server doesn't free that memory . Why ? How can free that…
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How can you fairly split CPU between multiple JVMs running on a single SmartOS server?

I currently run an app within Tomcat but want to deploy Play Framework on the same servers as well. For licensing reasons, this is cost efficient, but being able to use excess CPU usage on a beefier instance should be beneficial as well. If I'm…
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OpenSolaris user permissions and problems

I'm trying to achieve the following in OpenSolaris to setup permissions on the ZFS volumes (shared using CIFS). There are some users who should belong to the sysusers group, they have access to everything and anything in the /tank/storage ZFS…
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Application compatability across different flavours of Solaris

Does anyone have an answer for the following? Can an app supported for Solaris Sparc be reasonably expected to work on Solaris x86?Can an app supported for Solaris 10 be reasonably expected to work on OpenSolaris?(This is the important one) Can an…
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OpenSolaris iSCSI target - slow read

We have a new NAS with 6xSAS in RAID10, testing OpenSolaris 2009.6 on it. A local read/write speed is amazing, about 700/350MB/sec. The network is temporary set up a s a single 1Gbit link, without any link aggregation/jumbo frames. I get 80/60MB/sec…
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Is there a way to make a browse-able automount directory without mounting the subdirectories?

Question: Is there a way to make a browse-able automount directory without mounting the subdirectories? Background: I am looking at moving from statically mounted NFS shares, to dynamically mounted NFS shares. The shares are hosted on OS X and…
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Is it possible to remove the lock of consoles in Solaris?

I installed Solaris 11 with just consoles. Just like with Linux, you can switch between consoles using the Alt-F1 to Alt-F6 key combos. Great. Only, each time you do so, it asks you for your password. Is there a way to remove the lock on consoles so…
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Solaris 10 5/09 can't find SATA disk

We need to run standard Solaris 10 on a few development servers (Dell 530s) because we can't get a commercial application running on OpenSolaris (we're still trying). However, we are finding that sometimes when Solaris 10 goes to do the install,…
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install of opensolaris 2009.06 desktop on VirtualBox

My OpenSolaris Live CD worked fine in VirtualBox and from there I did a standard install. Now when it boots it comes up with: WARNING: cpu0: failed to update microcode from version 0x0 to 0xcb SunOS Release 5.11... [snip] Mounting ZFS filesystems:…
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