Dan Price just sent this great Solaris 10 article internally and I thought I should share it with the world. Some highights:
"...someone who knows DTrace could walk into a strange Solaris 10-based environment with machines and configurations he had never seen before and use it to track the problem down."
"Many people will wonder, "Is Solaris 10 better than Red Hat Enterprise Server 3, Windows Server 2003, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9?" Under most conditions the answer is yes, thanks to the above-mentioned features that are unique to Solaris 10. While SLES9 has Usermode Linux to do operating system virtualization, it requires assigned system resources and doesn't offer optimal performance. Solaris Containers require only storage (hard drive) space to work and don't suck up as much system resources, making this feature more efficient while providing similar functionality. ReiserFS v4 may be a significant step forward for Linux file systems, but looking through the feature list on its Web site, I don't see anything like the ability to add storage space dynamically or integrated checksums to protect against data corruption. ReiserFS v4 is also not 128-bit, so its ceiling is much lower than that of ZFS. DTrace has no equivalent anywhere, as far as I can tell."
The paragraph above is great, especially the last sentence which gets to the heart of what Byran, Mike and Adam have been trying to convey all along.
(2004-12-03 10:09:47.0) Permalink Comments [1]
BTW, when can we have a GUI front-end for: ZFS, Zone, and DTrace? thanks
Posted by e1_ang on December 03, 2004 at 06:00 PM PST #