I was setting up a Solaris 11 box to use VLAN tags today. This is how i did it.

List out the devices on the system

SAMFS 5.2 I/O RAID 5 IO Alignment with EFI Labels

One of the most overlooked design decisions when setting up a new filesystem is correcting the RAID 5 stripe alignment when using EFI labels on the disk. The EFI label uses the first 32 sectors of the disk, immediately causing the strip to misalign.

For example, when using SAN disk, often you will select a segment size on the disk when creating the RAID group. For example:

I was digging around today and found a cool little jQuery utility from abeautifulsite.net: http://www.abeautifulsite.net/blog/2008/03/jquery-file-tree/. It was time to see if I could make this work with Perl and Catalyst. There is an existing Perl connector script for CGI, but I want to use Catalyst. This is how I made it work.

I've been playing around with Solaris 11, and they have really switched out the configuration of the network stack in this release.

Today I've decided to setup a custom Perl /Catalyst environment to do some testing at home. I've installed this perl in /opt/bin/perl. Threads are enabled and I'll install Catalyst.

skipper@ssminnow:/opt# wget "ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/F/FL/FLORA/perl-5.14.2.tar.gz"