[root@dogface ~]# zpool replace zones /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2072AB3D4d0 /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2B66D775Ed0 cannot replace /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2072AB3D4d0 with /dev/dsk/c0t50014EE2B66D775Ed0: devices have different sector alignment

Up until a couple of years ago, I was becoming increasingly active in the http://illumos.org community. I’d given a talk on the subject at http://triangledevops.com, and indeed my most popular entries on this blog tend to be the ones relating to h…

I had to fiddle around with this a bit and thought it might be useful to others. I’m using a http://joyent.com http://smartos.org zone as a file server for my Macs at home, and http://netatalk.sourceforge.net is really the best way to share files …

I will be speaking Wednesday night at the http://www.meetup.com/Triangle-DevOps/ group’s October meeting, hosted by http://webassign.net. The topic is “Introduction to illumos”. I’m expecting this to be a gentle introduction to the illumos world f…

While hanging out in some of the regular channels for SmartOS help, I’ve noticed that some people may still be having a hard time finding where the community congregates. I know this is already documented in the http://wiki.smartos.org/, but the W…

It’s good to see other people out there are reading this blog and http://www.philipp.haussleiter.de/2012/02/joyent-smartos-mysql-vm-setup/ with some success.

I started this blog less than a week ago, and I wrote a niche article about target="_blank" that I expected to get a few dozen views on over a period of days or weeks. It’s been a little over a full day, and I definitely got a lot more eyes on it …

As I’ve alluded to previously, I’ve been exploring Joyent’s target="_blank" lately. I’d like to talk a little bit more about it. It seems to me that a lot of my peers haven’t yet heard about it, or don’t really understand it much at all. The docum…