In the example below, im mounting the the lofs file system as readonly so the nonglobal zone cant modify the contents. 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. 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. 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. 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. Warnings about readonly filesystems while installing a solaris. This filesystem may be shared with the global zone, which would result in the files. Potentially problematic solaris 10 patches oracle solaris blog. You can identify file system types without a name by their numeric value. This stepbystep guide, complete with screen shots, takes users through the installation process, in 22 simple steps. 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.
Installing the latest version of live upgrade from the update 9 iso. Renaming a lofs type file system as signed to a solaris 10 zone by sahil suri. Solaris 10 update 9 live upgrade issues with zfs oracle. For more information, see using your assigned administrative rights in securing users and processes in oracle solaris 11. Solaris 10 10 08 u6 added boot from zfs and can use zfs as its root file system. Veritas file system vxfs was the first commercial journaling file system. 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.
All file systems are mounted on global zone and data file systems are mounted on nonglobal zone as lofs. Just as an example of the read only file system suggested by jlliagre. Scsa 200 and scsa 202 exam material included with clear explanation. How to set up a hadoop cluster using the oracle solaris zones, zfs, and network virtualization technologies. 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. 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. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by lsof. Hi all, can you please help me in understanding the lofs file system or point me towards some link which can help. You can share a file system between the global zone and nonglobal zones by using lofs mounts. 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.
Solution although this is a limitation in solaris 10 nonglobal zone there are 3 alternatives. How to create and mount an lofs file system managing. A filesystem in solaris can be referenced by its device name e. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. 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. A short guide to the solaris loopback file systems and mounting. Feb 01, 2005 the server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register.
The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file. Unable to backup loop back file systems lofs in solaris. A security vulnerability in the solaris 10 loopback. The zfs or ufs file system is hierarchical, starting with the root directory and continuing downwards through a number of directories. Hadoop framework how to control your applications network bandwidth how to get started creating oracle solaris zones in oracle solaris 11. Solaris operating system how to quickly install the. Aset performs seven tasks, making specific checks and adjustments to system files and permissions to ensure system security. Average time spent in system call to read the file. This session is a handson tutorial on the basics of oracle solaris. 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. Devfs device file system the devfs is used to manage the namespace of all devices on the system. You can install the ibm spectrum protect oracle solaris sparc api from the.
The solaris os has a long history of innovation, and the solaris 10 os is a watershed release that includes features such as. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. 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. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. 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. Solaris 10 introduces new linkerloader hardware capabilities support. Recently i had to install a locale to one of my zones in my solaris server. On the day of writing, the newest version of solaris 10 is u11 1 and cluster for solaris 10 is 3. Solaris 8 solaris is the unixbased operating system of sun microsystems with roots in the bsd operating system family.
How to mount a loopback file system to a running solaris 10 zone i. In this quick article ill demonstrate how we can easily rename a loopback file system mounted. 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. Disk and filesystems management in solaris softpanorama. 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.
For rman streaming backups, lofs should not matter. Note also that you can mount a single file readonly with solaris. I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. 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. 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. One very useful purpose of it is that you can take a cdrom image file.
Oracle solaris zfs is a revolutionary file system that changes the way we look at storage allocation for open systems. The os is solaris 10 u8, could anyone provide any idea please 2 replies. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big filesdirectories on root. Creating oracle solaris file systems oracle solaris. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 10 release. For an rman proxy backup snapshot, that type oralce backup should not be expected to work properly with lofs. Examples of adding vxfs, zfs, svm, ufs, lofs, raw volumes. Find answers to what is lofs file system in solaris 10. 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. I wanted to share a zfs file system, managed in the global zone, in another zone. Renaming a lofs type file system assigned to a solaris 10. Upon restart the system loads the kernel txt ok, but the. The solaris loopback file system is a handy bit of software, allowing you to mount directories.
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. Aug 17, 2016 21 3 types of file systems disk based zfs network based nfs virtual tmpfs file systems 22. This file system is used for the devices directory. Mount lofs file system to running solaris 10 zone how to mount a loopback file system to a running solaris 10 zone i.
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. Creating and mounting a loopback file system lofs system. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system unix and. How to set up a mongodb nosql cluster using oracle solaris zones. This procedure uses the zonecfg command to add an lofs mount of the global zone exportdatafiles file system. 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 related to managing removable media, disks and devices, file. The server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. Average time spent to verify if buffer read from the disk is a hole. Infoscale deployment within solaris 10 branded zones in. 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. Hi all, i have solaris 10 configured with two nonglobal zones.
The file system idataagent uses the operating system s kernel resources, such as shared memory, semaphores, etc. How to use lofs to mount a file system creating and using. 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 local file systems on solaris are ufs, zfs, and veritas file. How to share a zfs file system between a global zone and a. 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. 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. Exclude the required file system types using the ignorefstype additional setting.
Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. Enabling optimized scan for solaris file system idataagent. The os is solaris 10 u8, could anyone provide any idea please. 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. 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. The default file system type for the tmp directory in the sunos 5. There doesnt seem to be a firefox version for solaris 10. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. 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. Novice users should be able to complete a solaris 10 operating system installation on a standalone x86 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 zone. How do i identify and exclude file system types without a name from backups, using log files. 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. Hi all, can you please help me in understanding the lofs file system.
The root file system hierarchy is mostly identical to systems running solaris 10 that have a zfs root file system. Solaris zones checking processes and lofs file system. Oracle solaris 11 file system changes transitioning from. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. How to set up a hadoop cluster using oracle solaris. I have added 4 luns of 100 gb each and still not able to extend a file system.
Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6366432 date of resolved release 01feb2007 impact. Installing the oracle sparc api ibm knowledge center. The post includes the examples of adding vxfs, zfs, ufs, lofs, cdrom, raw and disk devices to the nonglobal zones. It is certainly possible to install packages manually from a solaris 10 dvd. 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. 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.
Hi after doing a live upgrade from solaris 10 update 8 to solaris 10 update 9 the alternate boot environment i created is no longer bootable. Optimized scan is performed when you run a backup for any subclient. 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. 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. Average time spent in system call to close the file. In the example below, im mounting the the lofs file 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. This procedure uses the zonecfg command to add an lofs mount of the global zone exportdatafiles file system to the myzone configuration. Default solaris file systems system administration guide. Oracle solaris zones let you import the working environment from an older generation sparc server running older releases of. In this lab, we learned how to set up a hadoop cluster using oracle solaris 11 technologies such as oracle solaris zones, zfs, and network virtualization and dtrace. By joining our community you will have the ability to post. Image packaging system software on systems running the oracle solaris 11. Installing the tivoli storage manager solaris client.
Infoscale deployment within solaris 10 branded zones in solaris 11 global zone environments. If the client is not installed in the global zone, a warning message appears at the end of the installation. Unable to backup loop back file systems lofs in solaris 10. How to configure solaris zone to access a cdrom the geek diary. The loopback file system lofs the lofs file system lets you create a new. Nov 16, 2004 news, tips, partners, and perspectives for the oracle solaris operating system. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics. 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. Where can i find a firefox version to download for solaris 10. How to use lofs to mount a file system creating and. Sun alert 102699 a security vulnerability in the solaris. 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.
The delayed free block count is recalculated accurately when transactions are created and when metadata is flushed to disk. This can be done using the loop back file systemlofs. We have 3 different versions of libc for solaris x86, the old one we had before plus two new ones. The solaris 10 system software includes aset, which helps you monitor and control system security by automatically performing tasks you would otherwise do manually. The file system types can be identified in the command output for e. If you do not have oracle solaris 11, download it here. 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.
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