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OpenSolaris and ZFS: The beauty of snapshots.

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dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/blog; By Petros Koutoupis
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Two days ago, I ran through a long needed image update to the OpenSolaris 2010.03 preview. I was updating through the pkg update manager from build 129 to build 134. So when I say, it was much needed, I wasn’t kidding. Anyway, after over 1 GBytes of updates was completed, a new boot environment (BE) was created with the native ZFS snapshot feature and I shut down the PC for the night. The next day I turned the PC on into the latest boot environment to find that my gnome-terminal was giving me problems.

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