July 20, 08 by cjgibbs
So if you didn’t quite understand that subject it means this post is about the ACL (access control list) I am using on my CIFS (common internet file system) shared ZFS (zetta file system). I’m fairly new to ACLs myself but Ben Rockwood wrote an extremely helpful post about them, so go check it out!
On to the subject of this post - If you share a ZFS filesystem with CIFS and create new entries from a windows computer (as one might do for a home file server), the resulting entries have zero permissions. For example, this is the ls -l result of a directory and a text file created from a windows system: Read the rest of this entry »
July 19, 08 by cjgibbs
If you were like me and installed the original release of OpenSolaris, it might be time to upgrade. The original release (2008.05) was based on the Solaris Nevada code version 86. The current version of Nevada is 93. The great thing about OpenSolaris is that the changes in Nevada get ported over to the OpenSolaris package server. This means you can easily upgrade to the latest package set with one command: pkg image-update
It gets better! OpenSolaris will even help protect your system by creating an entirely new boot environment and upgrading that. So if something were to not go as expected you could always boot back into your original environment. Read the rest of this entry »
July 16, 08 by cjgibbs
Ok, this is just awesome.
