OpenSolaris upgrade
OpenSolaris 2009.06 was released this month. Upgrading my home file server was pretty easy.
# pkg refresh && pkg image-update
Everything worked smoothly until the last part. The new boot environment did not activate correctly. Some further digging revealed that one of the two disks in my rpool was set with and EFI disk label (I’m not sure how that happened). I found some good information online, and soon enough, I was up and running with the new version of OpenSolaris.
ZFS was upgraded in this new version, so I upgraded it on my file server.
# zfs update
And like that, I was done. I will be interested to see if the drivers (rge) for my original NIC are better. If so, I may be able to set up trunking on the two NICs to double my throughput. I did notice that CIFS seems to work a little better. That is, I didn’t have to coerce the machine to share via CIFS like I used to.
about 8 months ago
John I admire your technical skill with the exercise above. I didn’t follow some of that – probably because I don’t use that operating system.
I am extremely thankful for you turning me on to Ubuntu Linux. Because of an MLB.tv support issue, I had to reinstall Vista. An hour later, it was time for the upgrades to begin. 3hrs later everything was up to date, it says…. I like that Ubuntu doesn’t take hours to upgrade when the fixes come out. And i like that the support is free. Thanks for the advice!
about 8 months ago
Hi John, Keen to hear if the newer build of opensolaris fixes the rge issues we’ve had in the past.
I’ve had a few issues with the newer build and virtualbox – i think it is around the new virtual network that has been implemented (crossbow)
about 8 months ago
John I found out google is launching a new OS based on their cloud-computing model. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10281744-2.html
Didn’t know if you had heard.