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Archive für Juli 2008

features of zfs

Here you can find a good overview on the features of a advanced filesystem: OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin

linux-next?

Even if not meaning exactly that, a lot of the topics Anrew Morton addressed in a presentation at the ‘Japan Linux Symposion’ in July 2008 (Andrew Symposion) are pointing in that direction. What is lacking and what is coming next?

In regard to technology, Andrew points out some very important things for the next years:

  • Filesystems
  • Memory management
  • OS virtualization (container)
  • Resource control (per container resource control)
  • Tracing

In general, his summary is a little bit frustrating - have a look at it yourself. More on that soon.

the pain of updating opensolaris

Yes - it is really a pain. Although I like OpenSolaris the procedure of updating it can be improved a lot. The package server itself seems to be not very reliable: each update run has to be restarted several times: and even more worse - it cannot be restarted. Imagine: after downloading about 1.3G for updating your process aborts and you need to download all that stuff again.

opensolaris-update

There is really a lot of need for improvement - at least, the process should be restartable at that point he got the error.

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