Veritas File System VxFS is a journaling filesystem with performance advantage over UFS. VxFS is really a savior when you want to build large files system quickly. Here is the commands to build VxFS
Building a VxFS Filesystem:
#/usr/lib/fs/vxfs/mkfs -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vx/rdsk/mydg/myvol01
Problem when trying to delete the volumes under the Veritas volume manager? Assume there is no file system in the volume. First thing make sure the volume is not open and mounted by any file system and try running,
# vxinfo -g <disk_group>
The “load average” of the UNIX system is the average number of processes assigned to the specified processor set that are in the system run queue, averaged over various periods of time.
For example, your UNIX system may have 100 processes in the process table, but at a given moment, 98 of them may be “sleeping”, such as a web server which just “sleeps” while waiting for a web browser to connect to it.
To add a new disk to the system, prepare the disk to hold a file system, and mount the file system, perform these general steps:
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Just see the Solaris 10 video ad from Sun( now part of Oracle). Well crafted video. Watch.
In Solaris there are times you may need to jump into ok prompt. You can do this while booting by pressing CTRL + A , but when you are in Solaris shell you can do it by using uadmin command . Here are the all the options of uadmin
All Sun Servers and workstations have resident boot PROM firmware (called OBP) that provides basic hardware testing and initialization prior to booting. The boot PROM also enables you to boot from a wide range of devices. The boot PROM firmware controls the operation of the system before the OS has been booted and the kernel is available.Before updating we should know what is the existing OBP revision. Read more…