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Monday June 26, 2006

Solaris 10 6/06 Released (now with ZFS!)

Update: Downloads should be fine again

~~Update: we're having a software configuration issue on the SDLC and so the downloads may not be available at the moment. They should be working soon.~~

Today Solaris 10 6/06 shipped, marking the first supported release to include ZFS, Sun's new filesystem.

For a engineers like Jeff, Bill, Matt (and many more) who have spent years perfecting ZFS, today marks a big milestone on a long road. Congratulations to Jeff and the whole team!

A What's New guide is available and downloads of S10U2 are available immediately. A brief summary of some of the new features:

ZFS, Sun's revolutionary new filesystem
Predictive Self Healing for x64 systems
Predictive Self-Healing SNMP trap support
Postgres bundled
vold service conversion to SMF
IPv6 for IPFilter
More UDP and TCP/IP performance improvements
In-kernel SSL proxy for SSL performance
PCI Express support on x86 systems including hotplug
Native SATA framework
gnome-pilot support for PDA synchronization
Xorg 6.9
Realplayer

(2006-06-26 11:18:35.0) Permalink Comments [10]
Trackback: http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/solaris_10_update_2_released

Comments:

Actually, the links are currently non-functional. It would be really nice if Sun would properly prepare for heavy loads when they release a new product for download, since this seems to happen every time... leaving most people to wait several days until things are corrected.

Posted by Ken Lareau on June 26, 2006 at 11:22 AM PDT #

Ken, I've forwarded along your message and asked our marketing folks to look into it.

Posted by Dan Price on June 26, 2006 at 11:24 AM PDT #

only the link for the x86 DVD was working. I managed to get downloaded before the rush :-)

Posted by john on June 26, 2006 at 11:26 AM PDT #

The download issue has now been fixed.

Posted by Dan Price on June 26, 2006 at 12:46 PM PDT #

Why not torrents?

Posted by tariq on June 26, 2006 at 03:19 PM PDT #

In-kernel SSL proxy for SSL performance

Am I the only one asking myself what an SSL proxy is doing in kernel space ?!?!?

Posted by Peter Hoeg on June 26, 2006 at 11:57 PM PDT #

Thank you for the MD5SUMS! I cannot wait to upgrade my home, Linux NFS server!

Posted by Joseph Kotran on June 27, 2006 at 08:43 AM PDT #

Hi!

Will the Companion CD be updated?

By the way, it's not available with the core Solaris 10 DVD/CD on the download page...

Thanks a lot!

Posted by Godefroy Riegler on June 27, 2006 at 11:02 AM PDT #

Peter, The in-kernel SSL proxy is provided for improved performance. One problem (as I understand it) with SSL processing is that it necessitates a series of user/kernel round trips; by offloading SSL processing into the kernel, these can be avoided. Additionally, the kernel can transparently take advantage of any fancy crypto hardware as needed.

Posted by Dan Price on June 27, 2006 at 11:12 AM PDT #

This looks awesome! I've been using ZFS under Solaris Express for a while now, and it's definitely the best filesystem I've dealt with yet. However, now that it's in an official release, is it possible to upgrade my Solaris Express install (2/06, b31a) to the official 6/06?

Posted by Ben Jencks on July 06, 2006 at 12:59 AM PDT #