I am stoked. Aren’t you?
The big question I have is how far forward Jack’s flash forward at the end of season 3 is supposed to be? We know that there are only going to be six seasons of Lost.
So many questions and not enough answers. Best show ever!
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
I took a break from my recent OpenSolaris Zones wrangling this weekend to throw down on a migration from BIND to PowerDNS. It’s always nice to have your zones stored in a MySQL database as we have ours configured, but man, someone really needs to write a new web UI for it. Coming from being able to make massive changes by writing some scripts with 1,$s/search/replace/g antics, it’s really tough to manually modify each row declaration with a button click within the AJAX UI. Or, if anyone has any recommendations, I’m up for hearing them.
One really slick thing is that we’ve got our slaves replicating via MySQL replication which is an inventive way to keep the zones up-to-date in real-time without too much finagling.
So I’ve managed to set up a few Zones, 2 web servers using lighttpd and 2 database servers (using MySQL, of course) with the web servers sharing a ZFS volume over NFS. Pretty slick, all within one day without much experience in any of the Zone or ZFS realm.
I’m still playing, but documenting everything every step of the way for some Future Plans. Things are looking good–at least compared to my recent–and very trying–experiments with Xen.
For a personal project, I decided I’d do some work with Open Solaris and use its popular Zones project in combination with ZFS. I’ve gotta say, there’s been a considerable amount of work in re-doing the installer for SXDE (Solaris Express Development Edition). It’s been a while since I’ve done much with Solaris outside of a quick SAMP build on one of the test Fire T2000 servers we’ve got at work.
The DVD x86 install is almost complete and I’m getting ready to play. I plan on documenting my journey with Zones and ZFS so keep up if you’re interested in using Solaris for virtualization and shared file systems. I’ve been looking for an open source project to contribute to for a while now and Zones seems like it hits home. Exciting.
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