Sunday, March 25, 2007

SVM metaset on non-SCSI disks

An SVM metaset creation fails on disks that don't support SCSI-2 reservation with the following error:
"metaset: hostname: setname: failed to reserve any drives"
To avoid this the set must be defined as auto-take metaset:

metaset -s setname -A enable

This automatically prevents SVM from issuing SCSI-2 reservations.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Surprise. Bad surprise.

I didn't believe that QFS cannot be expanded online (after increasing an underlying LU or adding another one). But it's a bad, sad, disappointing fact of life.
All this "nothing can beat QFS" hype is bullshit. It cannot grow so it's beaten. Bad surprise.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

QFS and SAM-FS patches were removed from the patchdiag.xref file

There are no QFS and SAM-FS patches in the patchdiag.xref file from 2007/Mar/09.
This is BAD! People using the great PCA utility for patch management won't be sure that all missing patches are installed.
Is SUN really interested to make people nervous ?