Things I want to test in Solaris 10 10/09
Solaris 10 Update 8, also know as 10/09, was just released. It has a bunch of cool new features.
Here are the new features I'm most interested in playing with:
- Turbo-charged SVR4 packaging. Despite its old age, I'm a big fan of the pkg format. The 10/09 enhancements are supposed to make everything from initial installs, to LiveUpgrades, to zone installations faster. Awesome.
- Zone parallel patching. Huge possibilities here. Patching zones has been a sore area for me. Anything that makes patching systems with non-global zones better would be great.
- ZFS root flash archive-based installation. The installer used to core dump if you tried to install a flar onto a ZFS rooted system. In my mind, this is one of the last steps to a mature ZFS rooted file system.
- ZFS user and group quotas.
- Solaris 8 and 9 Container support. I've read rumors that support for Solaris 8 and 9 Containers is bundled with the OS. This would be great if it's true. Historically you needed the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 media if you wanted to install a Branded Zone. If this is true it would alleviate a big headache for me.
