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Comment on Xen, SAN, LVM and host tagging by markround

markround — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:04:28 +0000

Very interesting post.

I’m running a Xen SAN and am looking at doing the same thing you did – did you ever experience any LVM2 metadata corruption issues ? All my tests have shown sharing a volume group to be pretty safe as long as you are careful to keep volumes deactivated on the hosts that aren’t using them (which is where the host tags come in useful), and take care to only make changes on one host at a time. But I keep seeing all kinds of dire warnings about running LVM on a SAN without CLVM…

Comment on PS3 Media Server for Solaris by jmccune

jmccune — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:03 +0000

Ben,

I have plans to create “official” packages for MediaTomb binaries for solaris in the very near future. I’ll keep you posted on this with an article, so please subscribe to the RSS feed. Were you able to get mediatomb running on your OpenSolaris system? If not, I’d be happy to help you.

-Jeff

Comment on PS3 Media Server for Solaris by benjaminsson

benjaminsson — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:29:40 +0000

I’ve just installed OpenSolaris and set it up as a storage server.

Found your blog while searching for a DNLA server for Solaris.

Have you submitted a patch with your modifications to the MediaTomb project?
Or could you send them your binarys to add to the download page?

Comment on PS3 Media Server for Solaris by jmccune

jmccune — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:16:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment Mike. I actually ended up sticking with MediaTomb after finally getting it to compile cleanly. MediaTomb been rock solid for me.

While it’s not yet serving anything else than static media on the filesystem, I do have a post waiting to be published regarding Peapod automated video downloading, and I’ll be investigating the scripting aspects of MediaTomb as time permits.

Comment on PS3 Media Server for Solaris by mike.lischke

mike.lischke — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:44:28 +0000

When it comes to Coherence documentation is not very extensive, nonetheless there *is* some. See here: http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/DocumentationDepartment. Additionally, I wrote a complete guide to set Coherence up on OpenSolaris: http://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/SolarisInstallation, including SMF profile. Coherence is running very well and serving HD videos, sounds and videos (plus stuff from Apple Trailers, Flickr and whatnot).

Comment on Solaris 10 Root Shell Recovery by jmccune

jmccune — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:19:16 +0000

@Brent

Thank you for this suggestion. I haven’t run into this method while researching the root shell in Solaris 10, is this a common solution or a best practice as far as you know?

Thanks for contributing,
-Jeff

Comment on Manually Migrate Tiger FileVault sparseimage to Leopard FileVault sparsebundle by jmccune

jmccune — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:16:03 +0000

@LolaM

A sparsebundle is always a folder containing many, smaller files. The bundle is organized this way so that no single piece will exceed file size limitations such as FAT’s two gig limit.

You might try using the hdiutil command to mount the volume as I mention in the article.

What a specific error messages are you receiving? Have you checked your system logs in Console.app?

Cheers,
-Jeff

Comment on Solaris ZFS Windows Sharing by jmccune

jmccune — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:48:42 +0000

Note, it may be better to install the storage-nas profile, as documented at http://www.opensolaris.com/200811/openstorage/storagestart/

pfexec pkg install storage-nas

Comment on Solaris 10 Root Shell Recovery by Brent

Brent — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:06:01 +0000

Instead of changing the shell, why not just add a line to ~root/.profile:

exec /usr/bin/bash

If something happens to bash, you’ll just get a ‘command not found’ error.

Cheers,
Brent

Comment on Solaris 10 Root Shell Recovery by jmccune

jmccune — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:19:05 +0000

Changing root’s shell on a solaris machine has never bitten me personally, although I’ve never been responsible for anything other than Solaris 10 machines. I have heard first hand accounts regarding the prudence of this recommendation.

Evidently with Solaris 5.9 and earlier, changing the shell might prevent single user mode from working if the shell’s linked libraries aren’t accessible.