Entries tagged with 'Storage'
Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008:
Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem.
DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers [...]
Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:
June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10.
Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once [...]
Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:
Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]
Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:
Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]
Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:
2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]
Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:
System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]
Thumper From Sun is A Beast
Jonathan Schwartz gave us all a glimpse of the upcoming storage product from Sun: Thumper (external name still to be determined)
This is one hell of a beasty. Inside this beasty you’ll find 2x AMD Operteron dual core CPU’s with up to 24 Terabytes of storage, running Solaris 10 and ZFS. All this squeezed [...]
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