Robert Milkowski's blog

CVE metadata is now provided in IPS packages .

There is a very good presentation describing how Kernel Zones are implemented from an architecture point of view.

I've been playing with Solaris Kernel Zones recently. I installed a zone named kz1 on an iscsi device so I could test Live Migration as...

SmartDataCenter and Manta are now open source

While playing with Kernel Zones on Solaris 11.2 I noticed that once a ZFS volume is shared over iSCSI, while I can create a snapshot of it, ...

This was my first time attending OOW and I must say I did like it. What a big marketing extravaganza...! It wasn't all marketing though...

Recently I was investigating an issue where OpenAFS server processes where crashing on start-up if ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization...

I needed to monitor incoming UDP packets being dropped by kernel and report some basic information on each of them (src and dst IP:port is ...

MongoDB is using mmap() to access all its files. It also has a special thread which by default wakes up every 60s and calls msync() for all...

Thank you guys for the pkg exact-install .

Solaris limits rate at which a process core dump is generated. There are two tunables with default values: core_delay_usec=10000 core_chunk...

I value my personal pictures so I store them on a home NAS which is running Solaris/ZFS. The server has two data disks mirrored. It's b...

Last week I presented about " OpenAFS on Solaris 11 x86 " at OpenAFS conference at CERN.

One of the missing things in SMF for me is an ability to mark a service to be disabled or enabled after reboot during postinstall phase of ...