Solaris™ Operating Environment Boot Camp

The Implementation

For the example servers within this book, we will be sticking to a standard design for filesystems on all our servers. This greatly simplifies the management of the servers and also simplifies the process of documenting them. In a large company with many Solaris servers, it is of great benefit to design a standard set of filesystems and use this design every time a new server is built. It means the build process is simpler and backups from one system can more easily be used to help recover from an emergency situation on another server. It also means that the support staff know what to expect and where to look when they get problems on any of their servers. A good idea is to define and document naming standards and stick to ...