Interesting fact about the Opensolaris development cycle - "Opensolaris has the reputation of being the unstable tree of Solaris. Nowhere near of production quality. Like the development builds of Linux. But the reality is: There is nothing like a experimental tree in Solaris. When you want to do development you essentially branch the code, doing development in your own branch, offering BFU packages for early testing and only after testing you put new code into the mainline code by integrating the changes into your own." - c0t0d0s0.org
Moving a ZFS filesystem - "In a past life, I did the code for moving files/directories across a qtree in WAFL. The mv used to degrade to a copy because of the effective change in the fsid. The algorithm I used to combat this was to copy directories and move files. I had to copy the directories because we needed a source and destination target for the renames. And this would not leave us in an inconsistent state.
So I was all prepared for pain and hoops when I wanted to rename a ZFS filesystem on a test box. And I am happy to be dismayed that did not happen..." - Tom Haynes
ZFS with Cloud Storage or Faraway Storage - "Recently I am been testing few pieces of Storage projects of OpenSolaris with PostgreSQL. One of tests involves using an iSCSI disk with PostgreSQL. Unfortunately the storage that's available is in Colorado while my PostgreSQL server is located in Massachusetts. Latency will definitely be one of my top problems since storage is halfway across the country (in Colorado). Plus the fact that I will be running a database server on my end doesn't really sound like a good idea. Come to think about it, this could be a more common problem nowadays since Cloud Storage (for example Amazon S3 Webservice ) could be optimistically half way across the country and pessimistically be on the other side of the world." - Jignesh Shah, via Jeff Cheeney
SNIA Announces Solid State Storage Initiative - via Walter Moriconi
Jim Zemlin Lives in a Cave; or Linux Zealots Should Get Out More - "...Mr. Zemlin hammers on the fact that Solaris has only two redeeming
qualities, ZFS and DTrace, which he degrades as "minor features". Both
these technologies are revolutionary advances in computing and
storage... "minor" my ass..." - Ben Rockwood
