Articles tagged with: NFS
Gadget Review: D-Link DNS-321 NAS
The D-Link DNS-321 is among the least expensive dual-disk RAID NAS systems currently on the market. This small device offers an impressive array of features such as FTP, Samba, NFS, iTunes, DHCP, HTTP and UPnP …
Copying Data: Are We There Yet?
I am sure this will sound familiar: you are copying a large amount of data – either locally or over the network – and you are wondering how long it will take and if there is a way to make things go faster.You may be surprised, but it does matter what type of files you are copying: 1Gb-worth of many small files will take considerably longer to copy than two 500Mb files. The hardware you are using is an important consideration, but it’s not the only factor limiting data transfer speed.
Shell Scripting for HPC Clusters, Part 1
This is the first installment of a multipart guide for beginner Unix sysadmins supporting HPC clusters.
“For” and “While” Loop Constructs
The main challenge of supporting a Linux cluster is ensuring a homogeneous environment. Aside from small …
Mountpoint permission problem in Solaris
The following condition was originally discovered in OpenSolaris 11 (Bug ID: 4697677). This problem occurs when you do mkdir -m 700 on a mountpoint before mounting it. This superceeds whatever permissions you might give …
Solaris performance monitoring
The following is a brief overview of common performance monitoring tools for Solaris, including built-in tools, freeware add-ons, and commercial applications.
Souce: http://www.sunperf.com/perfmontools.html
Built-in Tools
vmstat
The vm in vmstat stands for Virtual Memory, of course. So let us …
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