Category: Solaris

Recover rpool ZFS pools and snapshots on Solaris 10 SPARC

I assume you’ve already taken a recursive ZFS snapshot and sent the snapshot/pool off to your local NFS server.

In this example, I have a Netra X1 with 2 drives (mirrored)

Now you need to boot your Solaris 10 CD/DVD, either from physical media or over the network


boot net -s

or


boot cdrom -s

Important: Make sure your disks are labeled correctly! (SMI)


format -e c0t0d0s0
>label
>0 (For SMI)
>modify
>Free Space Hog (Select s0, not s6)

Do the same for your other disk as well (In my case, c0t2d0s0)

Create your rpool


zpool create -f -o failmode=continue -R /a -m legacy -o cachefile=/etc/zfs/zpool.cache rpool mirror c0t0d0s0 c0t2d0s0

Mount NFS


mkdir /tmp/a
mount 192.168.1.1:/archives /tmp/a

ZFS Receive


zfs receive -dvuF rpool < /tmp/a/archive/rpool-backup

Set which pool you want to boot from


zpool set bootfs=rpool/ROOT/s10s_u8wos_08a rpool

Install boot blocks (SPARC)


installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0

Reboot


reboot -- disk

OpenSolaris mod_bw Apache2 Bandwidth Limiting

Install needed software

pkg install gsed wget SUNWapch22 sunstudioexpress

Yes, sunstudioexpress is really necessary. gcc will NOT work with mod_bw.
Download mod_bw

cd /tmp
wget http://ivn.cl/files/source/mod_bw-0.8.tgz
gunzip mod_bw-0.8.tgz
tar xf mod_bw-0.8.tar
cd mod_bw

Build/install the module. We need to make sure the SunStudioExpress binaries are chosen before anything else, so add it to the beginning of PATH.

export PATH=/opt/SunStudioExpress/bin:$PATH

We also need to make a symlink to /usr/ucb/echo (this is a bug with the apxs included in opensolaris, not with mod_bw)

mkdir /usr/ucb
ln -s /usr/bin/echo /usr/ucb/echo

Now cross your fingers and build the module

/usr/apache2/2.2/bin/apxs -i -a -c mod_bw.c

If it complains about .h files, you can find them here:

/usr/apache2/2.2/include
/usr/apr/1.3/include
/usr/apr-util/1.3/include

Once apxs finishes, it should automatically add the following entry to /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/modules-32.load

LoadModule bw_module          /var/apache2/2.2/libexec/mod_bw.so

Add the following to /etc/apache2/2.2/httpd.conf

BandWidthModule On

BandWidth all 40000

MinBandWidth all 10000

ForceBandWidthModule On

Restart apache2 and check on it’s status

svcadm restart apache22

svcs -a | grep apache22

online          1:55:27 svc:/network/http:apache22

If it’s in maintenance mode, check the log file

/var/svc/log/network-http:apache22.log

SunFire V480 and Linux

I’ve been working on a SunFire V480 system with Solaris 8 on it for some time now trying to upgrade it (and hopefully migrate it to debian).

After setting up a test machine, migrating all the applications as well as ldap, I disovered that Sun has not yet opened up the hardware enough to allow developers to have this machine work on any Linux or BSD system.

Looks like I’ll be using OpenSolaris on this machine, and never buying Sun again. 🙂