The latest release of Solaris 10 (S10U4 or 8/07 depending on how youlike to label it) has a built in iSCSI target implementation, and ZFSeven has integration with it so that it is easy to export space fromZFS pools. I've been poking it a bit, resulting in some things I wantto note down for my own later reference.

• Solaris 10 iSCSI target stuff is handled with the iscsitadm command,which is helpfully only one letter away from the

No one who's sane stores actual plaintext passwords; instead theyhash the password in some way and store the result, throwing away thepassword itself as fast as possible. There are three ways you can dothis:

1. you can hash just the password.
2. you can hash some global value plus the password.
3. you can hash some per-user value (a 'salt') plus the password.

If you hash just the password, anyone who can somehow gain access toyour password hashes can immediately run them through

The following thought about the push for IPv6 deploymentstruck me recently, so I'm going to dump it here.

One of the problems with IPv6 is that its major benefit is to expandthe available address space, and the expansion of address space doesn'tbenefit people who are already on the Internet. Instead they are beingasked to do a great amount of work for the benefit of other people,which rarely goes down very well.

(The people who are already on the Internet by and large