Posts tagged with: mount

There is a very old bug in Solaris (now fixed in Nevada) in which the underlying permissions of a mount point affect the overlying mounted filesystem. The normal way to resolve this is to umount the filesystem, correct the permission and remount it. This is sometime easier said than done, for example, what if one of those filesystems is actually still in use, or even a critical OS filesystem like /var or /etc/mnttab. You don't really want to be umounting these whilst they're in use and the fix may involve booting from network or CD into single user mode. Well, there is an easier and relatively unknown method of correcting this... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008: Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem. DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers in Solaris has made it's way into snv_93. OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - A great review of the features you can find in OpenSolaris 2008.11 from a Storage perspective, ie the stuff sysadmins want, but the other reviews never... Continue reading ►