Scsa 200 and scsa 202 exam material included with clear explanation. Solaris 10 update 9 live upgrade issues with zfs oracle. The delayed free block count is recalculated accurately when transactions are created and when metadata is flushed to disk. How to share a zfs file system between a global zone and a. A filesystem in solaris can be referenced by its device name e. The post includes the examples of adding vxfs, zfs, ufs, lofs, cdrom, raw and disk devices to the nonglobal zones. Sun alert 102699 a security vulnerability in the solaris. Optimized scan is performed when you run a backup for any subclient. How to set up a mongodb nosql cluster using oracle solaris zones.
Creating and mounting a loopback file system lofs system. The os is solaris 10 u8, could anyone provide any idea please 2 replies. Infoscale deployment within solaris 10 branded zones in solaris 11 global zone environments. How do i identify and exclude file system types without a name from backups, using log files. A security vulnerability in the solaris 10 loopback. The devfs file system is new in solaris 10 and increases system boot performance because only device entries that are needed to boot the system. Local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system.
Veritas file system vxfs was the first commercial journaling file system. I wanted to share a zfs file system, managed in the global zone, in another zone. Find answers to what is lofs file system in solaris 10. Just as an example of the read only file system suggested by jlliagre. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. Solaris 8 solaris is the unixbased operating system of sun microsystems with roots in the bsd operating system family. Upon restart the system loads the kernel txt ok, but the. You can share a file system between the global zone and nonglobal zones by using lofs mounts. The os is solaris 10 u8, could anyone provide any idea please. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices, file.
The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data. There doesnt seem to be a firefox version for solaris 10. Renaming a lofs type file system as signed to a solaris 10 zone by sahil suri. How to create and mount an lofs file system managing. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. Oracle solaris 11 file system changes transitioning from. Hi all, i have solaris 10 configured with two nonglobal zones. You can identify file system types without a name by their numeric value. Org before 20060225, and solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a users xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read xsession errors files of other users. Examples of adding vxfs, zfs, svm, ufs, lofs, raw volumes. Warnings about readonly filesystems while installing a solaris.
Solaris 10 system administration essentials is the first book to concisely yet comprehensively cover all of the breakthrough features of the solaris 10 operating system. From what ive read, i understand that i could either loopback mount the zfs file system in the nonglobal zone and in this case the mountpoint property must be legacy, or mount via nfs the file system in the nonglobal zone. Feb 01, 2005 the server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. Average time spent in system call to read the file.
Solaris 10 10 08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network io. Infoscale deployment within solaris 10 branded zones in. Hi all, can you please help me in understanding the lofs file system or point me towards some link which can help. The server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. Org before 20060225, and solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a users xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read xsession errors files.
Solaris operating system how to quickly install the. Novice users should be able to complete a solaris 10 operating system installation on a standalone x86 system. On the day of writing, the newest version of solaris 10 is u11 1 and cluster for solaris 10 is 3. Unable to backup loop back file systems lofs in solaris. If the client is not installed in the global zone, a warning message appears at the end of the installation. This session is a handson tutorial on the basics of oracle solaris.
Resource management guide for oracle solaris zones. If tivoli storage manager is not installed in the global zone, a warning message appears at the end of the installation. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. It is certainly possible to install packages manually from a solaris 10 dvd. How to set up a mongodb nosql cluster on an x86based system using oracle solaris zones and the oracle solaris 11 service management facility and dtrace analysis tool. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 10 release. Mount lofs file system to running solaris 10 zone how to mount a loopback file system to a running solaris 10 zone i. From what ive read, i understand that i could either loopback mount the zfs file system in the nonglobal zone and in this case the mountpoint property must be legacy, or mount via nfs the file system.
For an rman proxy backup snapshot, that type oralce backup should not be expected to work properly with lofs. Oracle solaris zones let you import the working environment from an older generation sparc server running older releases of. Solaris systems use the var directory to store logs and other local files so that the operating system can support other directories being mounted as read only, sometimes from file servers elsewhere on the network. Local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system see lofs 7fs. Exclude the required file system types using the ignorefstype additional setting.
I have added 4 luns of 100 gb each and still not able to extend a file system. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system hi all, q1 if i am in a globalzone, is there any command or anyway to check if a particular process in ps ef output is running in which. For rman streaming backups, lofs should not matter. To avoid the system getting into an inconsistent state during patching, lofs loopback mounts are used in the patchs scripts to mount the original objects over the. Image packaging system software on systems running the oracle solaris 11. Average time spent to verify if buffer read from the disk is a hole.
The solaris installation process enables you to install a default set of directories and uses a set of conventions to group similar types of files together. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics. Solution although this is a limitation in solaris 10 nonglobal zone there are 3 alternatives. In this quick article ill demonstrate how we can easily rename a loopback file system mounted. This can be done using the loop back file systemlofs. If you are using an earlier version of the solaris operating system, you can optimize the usage of these resources by setting the kernel parameter values. Solaris 10 10 08 u6 added boot from zfs and can use zfs as its root file system. The solaris loopback file system is a handy bit of software, allowing you to mount directories. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system unix and. Recently i had to install a locale to one of my zones in my solaris server. The default file system type for the tmp directory in the sunos 5. A short guide to the solaris loopback file systems and mounting. The devfs file system is new in solaris 10 and increases system boot performance because only device entries that are needed to boot the system are attached. Hi all, can you please help me in understanding the lofs file system.
If you do not have oracle solaris 11, download it here. You can install the ibm spectrum protect oracle solaris sparc api from the. Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. All file systems are mounted on global zone and data file systems are mounted on nonglobal zone as lofs. Nov 27, 2005 most filesystem mounting or unmounting is automated for a system at boot or shutdown, but there are times during system maintenance and working with nfs shares, for example, when manually unmounting a filesystem is important. Installing the tivoli storage manager solaris client. This filesystem may be shared with the global zone, which would result in the files. Disk and filesystems management in solaris softpanorama.
Sun solaris 8 sun solaris 9 sun solaris 10 race condition in the xsession script, as used by x display manager xdm in netbsd before 20060212, x. How to use lofs to mount a file system creating and. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file. Potentially problematic solaris 10 patches oracle solaris blog. Thus the df h command can sometimes take 10 seconds, but even if the file system waits for 10 seconds there is no guarantee that the output displayed will be accurate or valid. Examples of local file systems on solaris are ufs, zfs, and veritas file. Devfs device file system the devfs is used to manage the namespace of all devices on the system. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system. This file system is used for the devices directory. Solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. One very useful purpose of it is that you can take a cdrom image file. Aset performs seven tasks, making specific checks and adjustments to system files and permissions to ensure system security. Dec 18, 2008 solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk.
Solaris 10 introduces new linkerloader hardware capabilities support. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. This stepbystep guide, complete with screen shots, takes users through the installation process, in 22 simple steps. The solaris os has a long history of innovation, and the solaris 10 os is a watershed release that includes features such as. Creating oracle solaris file systems oracle solaris. Installing the oracle sparc api ibm knowledge center.
Nov 16, 2004 news, tips, partners, and perspectives for the oracle solaris operating system. Most filesystem mounting or unmounting is automated for a system at boot or shutdown, but there are times during system maintenance and working with nfs shares, for example, when manually unmounting a filesystem is important. How to mount a loopback file system to a running solaris 10 zone i. Note also that you can mount a single file readonly with solaris.
In the example below, im mounting the the lofs file system. Hadoop framework how to control your applications network bandwidth how to get started creating oracle solaris zones in oracle solaris 11. This how to guide instructs users unfamiliar with solaris 10 installation on how to install the solaris 10 os on a sun supported x86 system. Aug 17, 2016 21 3 types of file systems disk based zfs network based nfs virtual tmpfs file systems 22. Unable to backup loop back file systems lofs in solaris 10. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. Renaming a lofs type file system assigned to a solaris 10. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big filesdirectories on root. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. The file system types can be identified in the command output for e. Average time spent in system call to close the file.
Where can i find a firefox version to download for solaris 10. A zfs root pool contains a zfs file system with separate directories of system related components, such as etc, usr, and var, that must be available for the system to function correctly. Oracle solaris 11 express isv adoption guide the input and output syntax and semantics of oracle solaris utilities, which are documented in section 1 of the unix manual for application developers, the c language apis defined by the oracle solaris system. Oracle solaris zfs is a revolutionary file system that changes the way we look at storage allocation for open systems. The zfs or ufs file system is hierarchical, starting with the root directory and continuing downwards through a number of directories. For a solaris 10 sparse root nonglobal zone, the usr file system is normally mounted as readonly lofs from the global zone, and the following conditions apply. This is a problem for customers that use lofs exclusively for their solaris 10 zones implementation using the lofs to share file systems from their global zones to the local zones, rather than using local mounts.
The solaris 10 system software includes aset, which helps you monitor and control system security by automatically performing tasks you would otherwise do manually. May 18, 2012 downloading solaris images from oracle using wget 2 comments posted by jflaster on may 18, 2012 i came across this in a post by steve scargall in the oracle forums, this post is a rehash of his solution. The file system idataagent uses the operating system s kernel resources, such as shared memory, semaphores, etc. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. How to set up a hadoop cluster using the oracle solaris zones, zfs, and network virtualization technologies. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system. Enabling optimized scan for solaris file system idataagent. For more information, see using your assigned administrative rights in securing users and processes in oracle solaris 11. This procedure uses the zonecfg command to add an lofs mount of the global zone exportdatafiles file system. The loopback file system lofs the lofs file system lets you create a new. The solaris installation process enables you to install a default set of directories and uses a set of conventions to group similar types of files.
We have 3 different versions of libc for solaris x86, the old one we had before plus two new ones. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system hi all, q1 if i am in a globalzone, is there any command or anyway to check if a particular process in ps ef output is running in which zone. Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6366432 date of resolved release 01feb2007 impact. A zfs root pool contains a zfs file system with separate directories of system related components, such as etc, usr, and var, that must be available for the system. How to configure solaris zone to access a cdrom the geek diary. This article steps administrators through updating an oracle solaris 11 system with software packages that are provided with an active oracle support agreement, covering some of the. How to set up a hadoop cluster using oracle solaris. How to use lofs to mount a file system creating and using. Local privileged users inside a nonglobal zone may be able to move or rename files which are part of a readonly mounted loopback file system see lofs7fs. The root cause of this issue is that despite the svr4 file system standard stating usr should only contain non local files but os only files, a common free software.