OpenSolaris Metablog

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On this page you'll find a variety of sections pointing to blog entries on a variety of topics ranging from basic setup tips to DTrace internals. Please free to add your own blog entries to this list.

Contents 1 Basic Tips and Getting Started 2 Desktop 2.1 X Window System 2.2 Java Desktop System 3 Networking 4 Security 5 iSCSI 6 Hardware Topics 7 Observability 7.1 MDB 7.2 DTrace 7.3 FMA 7.4 CTF 8 Resource Management 8.1 SMF 9 Virtualization 9.1 Zones 9.2 BrandZ 9.3 Xen 10 System Administration 11 Filesystems 11.1 ZFS 11.2 CIFS 12 Development Tools 12.1 Sun Studio compilers 12.2 Linker/Loader/ELF 12.3 Code Management 12.4 NetBeans 12.5 Other 13 Kernel Internals

Basic Tips and Getting Started

• Solaris Networking Tips
• More Solaris Tips

Desktop

X Window System

• Desktop Configuration Rights Profile
• Killing Xsun with a Keystroke
• Wheel Mouse Support:
  • Getting wheel support for Xsun
  • Application wheel configuration
  • Xsun wheel event configuration
• Xserver provider for DTrace

Java Desktop System

• Changing JDS/Solaris 10 proxy settings
• Disabling language box in UTF-8 locales
• Using GDM instead of dtlogin on Solaris 10

Networking

• Solaris Tips & Tricks: IP Multipathing
• Event ports
• STREAMS: tr a-z A-Z
• STREAMS flow-control implementation
• Putnext and stack overflows
• Niagara - Designed for Network throughput
• Solaris Networking - The Magic Revealed (Part I)

Security

• OpenSolaris Security Community blog roll
• User Credentials and all that
• Solaris Privileges
• Solaris 10 Password History
• Solaris 10 Account Lockout ("Three Strikes!")
• Managing Non-Login and Locked Solaris Accounts
• Enforcing a Two Man Rule Using Solaris 10 RBAC
• Replacing sudo
• Enabling TCP Wrappers on Solaris 10
• Automating Solaris 10 File Integrity Checks
• Integrating Solaris 10 BART and the Solaris Fingerprint Database
• Solaris Signed Binaries
• Where's my md5sum
• Cryptography in Solaris

iSCSI

• iSCSI Software Initiator Details

Hardware Topics

• PCI Confusion
• PCI device identification and driver binding in Solaris

Observability

• Fun facts about corefiles
• A brief history of /proc
• Watchpoints features in Solaris 10
• Behind the music: /system/object
• Microstate accounting in Solaris 10
• Debugging on AMD64 - Part One
• Debugging on AMD64 - Part Two
• Debugging on AMD64 - Part Three
• NUMA Observability Tools
• Watching System Events

MDB

• mdb(1) background, intro, and cheatsheet
• My kingdom for a crash dump
• Kernel Debugging with KMDB
• kmdb design
• MDB for STREAMS
• The implementation of ::findleaks
• Diagnosing kernel hangs/panics with kmdb and moddebug

DTrace

• Demo'ing DTrace
• DTrace Inlines, Translators, and File
• DTrace as a Streams debugger
• Using DTrace to understand GNOME
• DTrace Safety
• Tricky problem with NTP
• DTrace and PHP, demonstrated
• DTrace and Ruby
• DTrace and Perl
• DTracing Java
• DTrace User-Land
• Too much pid provider
• Under the bootchart hood
• Using libdtrace
• fasttrap
• Putting developer-defined DTrace probe points in an application
• Doing the Jitter Bug
• DTrace Mozilla - JavaScript Tracing Framework landed

FMA

• LISA05 Tuesday: device errors, iostat, and logging
• Fault Management Top 10: #1
• Fault Management Top 10: #2
• A louder voice for the fault manager
• Fault Management for Athlon64 and Opteron

CTF

• Generating assembly structure offset values with CTF
• Reducing CTF Overhead
• Getting started with your own CTF data

Resource Management

• Why projects? Why not?
• Binding processes to Resource Pools
• Using poolbind to execute jobs in different pools
• The nuances of poolbind

SMF

• what services do I have?
• smf(5) and fault isolation on Solaris 10
• what's with these "legacy" services anyways?
• smf repository design and implementation choices
• Resource Management of Services
• smf(5) and init.d script compatibility
• assembling services for boot with smf(5)
• smf(5) fault/retry models
• How does :kill work?
• smf(5) design admissions
• smf(5): asking versus doing
• smf(5): authorizations built-in

Virtualization

Zones

• These Boots are Made for Walkin'
• Inside the Zones Console: a Tour of Comments, and Bugs
• Fair Share Scheduler and Zones
• Clearing up confusion about zlogin, zones, consoles, and terminal types

BrandZ

• BrandZ and Signals

Xen

• Live migration of Solaris instances
• Memory management under Xen
• A brief tour of i86xen
• Xen networking for OpenSolaris

System Administration

• Inside nohup -p
• Finding what package a file belongs to

Filesystems

ZFS

• ZFS: The Lumberjack
• ZFS vs. The Benchmark
• ZFS and the all-singing, all-dancing test suite
• Demonstrating ZFS Self-Healing
• ZFS saves the day(-ta)!
• NFSv4 and ZFS ACLs
• ZFS ACLs
• Keeping Your Personal Space in ZFS
• ZFS and Zones: Z's unite!
• Designing for Failure
• ZFS and FMA
• Principles of the ZFS CLI
• ZFS End-to-End Data Integrity
• RAID-Z
• Double parity RAID-Z
• Snapshots

CIFS

• CIFS ... in Solaris
• CIFS Service Autohome Shares
• Dealing with Windows SIDs in Solaris

Development Tools

Sun Studio compilers

• Boost and Sun Studio 12
• Interface Creation - using the compilers
• New Sun Studio "refresh" in SXDE 1/08 release

Linker/Loader/ELF

• Avoiding LD_LIBRARY_PATH: The Options
• Dependencies - define what you need, and nothing else
• Direct Binding - now the default for OSNet components
• Dynamic Object Versioning
• '_init'/'_fini' not found - use the compiler drivers
• Introducing elfedit: A Tool For Modifying Existing ELF Objects
• How to build a Shared Library
• Inside ELF Symbol Tables
• ld Is Now A Cross Link-Editor
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH - just say no
• Library Bindings - let's be a little bit more precise shall we
• My Relocations Don't Fit - Position Independence
• Static Linking - where did it go?
• Tracing a link-edit
• What Are Fake ELF Section Headers?
• What Are "Tentative" Symbols?
• What Is .SUNW_ldynsym?
• Wrong ELF Class - requires consistent compiler flags

Code Management

• Converting Projects to Mercurial
• SCM Migration: The Big Picture

NetBeans

• Mercurial and C/C++ Support in NetBeans 6.0 - well almost
• Interesting Plugins for NetBeans C/C++ Developers
• Python: Debugging with JEdit and JPyDebug on OpenSolaris

Other

• Intel Threading Building Block library now available on Solaris + Sun Studio
• Sun/Intel Threading Building Blocks Videos now posted

Kernel Internals

• Anatomy of a SPARC System Call
• x86 syscall primer
• Page Fault Handling in Solaris
• Dynamic segkp for 32bit x86 systems
• Kernel Address Space Layout on x86/x64
• We now resume() your regular programming.
• thread_nomigrate()
• CMT Scheduling Optimizations for SunFire T2000
• Thunking?!?! (amd64 boot)
• More on Solaris x86 and page tables
• Mad Hatters
• Solaris 10 on x64 Processors: Part 1 - Prework
• Solaris 10 on x64 Processors: Part 2 - Getting Started
• Solaris 10 on x64 Processors: Part Part 3 - Kernel
• Solaris 10 on x64 Processors: Part 4 - Userland
• Task Queues in OpenSolaris
• Event ports and performance