as an old sunos/pre-solaris and then solaris sys-admin, I keep running smartos partially for nostalgia and "cache-refreshing" what I learned 30 years ago but the killer app for me with smartos is the crossbow network stack + vmadm's managment model where I can have a dedicated admin network, and in my case two external internet facing networks which I can assign to hosts and trust that things will

be somewhat secure. having a very useful remote access to the system consoles is also a must for me (that I can cut-and-paste) (not a screen grabber console like vnc but the actual text so I can watch the kernel panic etc is very very easy with smartos. I have another environment which uses XCP-ng which is also pretty nice but it doesn't ahve the command-line ergronomics that allow me to

control all network, compute, and storage so cleanly and just boot off of a memory stick. there's really nothing else like it out there that I have found.

I just really wanted a hypervisor that was locked down and did one thing properly. I think smartos is that still, just don't have the need at the moment.

Hrmm, so I've had a smartos box up for years running smbd in an LX zone. Today it's running super slow. Turns out I'm out of quota!

apparently I need to set some kind of alert when I run out of quota

I should really set the quota on the data filesystem instead of the whole zone

Hrmm, would it be possible to have two pools, `zones`, and `storage`? I only occasionally use my NAS and I would like my HDDs to spin down to save power. So I was thinking of maybe putting `zones` into a pair of SSDs, and have the `data` filesystems live on the `storage` pool. There should be ~0 traffic on the storage pool 99% of the day.

i remember trying multiple zones years ago, it can be done but I don't know what additional considerations need to be dealt with when say upgrading the global zone

Hrmm, I might give it a shot then

Hrmm, how scary would it be to update the my global zone from 20220908T004516Z to the latest build.... Apparently I'm 2 years out of date :)

ismell I needed to update my mirror because I was still pointed at joyent

there is a new community mirror for zones and kvm images

joyent not supporting smartos anymore?

ismell it's complicated but it's more free now and there isn't a lot of development anymore, consider it feature complete. I'm speaking as a user/community member from the outside

I like things that are done :)

wow there is a `piadm` now

and a web ui?

i would call those new features myself...

`piadm` works by booting off the `zones` pool? i.e., I don't need a USB stick anymore?

jbk I'm not a power user and I didn't read the changelogs my bad

yes, but if you're using EFI boot, then your zones pool disks will need an EFI boot partition... I think it might work with legacy (BIOS) boot, but not really sure

Cool, maybe I'll switch over when I try splitting my `zones` pool into two

Does having a partition on the disk mess anything up? I remember reading a long time ago that zfs liked to own the full disk so it could control caching or some such. This was ages ago though.

Ah, so mnx acquired triton: mnx.io/blog/joyent-partnership