Welcome to Pete’s Super Systems: A SunWorld Column Archive at PG-TechEd World
About Pete’s Super Systems
“Pete’s Super Systems,” a column penned by Peter Baer Galvin until February 2001, focused on the intricacies of Solaris systems administration and management. These columns, known for their depth and practicality, provided invaluable insights for professionals in the field.
Column Archive Availability
The original columns from “Pete’s Super Systems” are no longer available at the IT World master site. However, we have preserved these insightful pieces here on PG-TechEd World, thanks to the permissions granted by SunWorld Magazine and IDG.
Index of Columns
Discover a comprehensive collection of “Pete’s Super Systems” columns. Please note that some content may reflect the context of the time of their original publication:
Pete’s Super Systems 1999
- Data depots: managing data storage
- A patch-work column, part 1 (system patching)
- A patch-work column, part 2 (system patching)
- The power of /proc
- Solaris 7: is this OS for you?
- Spreading the wealth (sysadmin hints)
- The return of the cluster
- How to construct your cluster configuration, part 2
- Stop your fire-fighting, part 1 (optimized sysadmin)
- Stop your fire-fighting, part 2 (optimized sysadmin)
- Room to grow: ‘debugging Solaris’ (Solaris todo)
Pete’s Super Systems 2000
- A report from LISA (LISA ‘99 trip report)
- The case of the unhappy host (problem debugging)
- Reliability without the cluster (high availability)
- Survey says: Solaris 8 is a winner
- Playing catch-up (conference notes and email)
- USENIX does it again (USENIX 2000 report)
- Debugging a performance problem
- Why aren’t you logging? (UFS logging)
- Decrease your stress (monitoring tools)
- An evolution and a revolution (book review)
- Giving away the secrets (online Solaris resources)
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