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svcbundle extended

svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...

Which SRU to get those new features?

Short answer: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features I'm writing about in the last few days didn't...

New -s option for zpool status

With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...

ZFS allocation units

This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...

You have been warned: Upgrading rpool

In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...

Solaris scales

This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...