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Saturday, December 16. 2006Solaris 10u3 (11/06)
Finally, the next update of Solaris 10 is out, with plenty of interesting and useful features.
I personally am most excited about ZFS improvements - somehow OpenSolaris isn't always welcome in big companies, and so it is very important that so many crucial improvements have finally made their way into an official update to Solaris 10: - zfs recursive snapshots - Double Parity RAID-Z - raidz2 - Extended error handling and notification for ZFS - with newly supplied ZFS diagnostic engine, you can now get errors handled and reported for pools and specific devices, CRC and I/O errors, and get it all printed to your console and/or /var/adm/messages. You can also get detailed information on fixing your ZFS problem using zpool status command. As always, you can download Solaris 10 from here: Get the Solaris 10 Operating System. If you want more details, please have a look at the great summary post by Ben Rockwood (Cuddletech) and, for all the details, a What's New in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release document ondocs.sun.com. Trackbacks
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OpenSolaris will never be welcome at big companies.
Why? Because big companies depend heavily at structured processes and workflows. There are entire departments of Solaris Engineering working on customized Solaris builds. These are 700+ man day efforts spanning several months per iteration. Patching and maintaining a build of Solaris which is to support 70,000 employees is difficult enough with production cut of Solaris, and damn near impossible with as fast of a moving target as OpenSolaris. And don't think these companies don't have their share of problems: these are very complex environments with many different vendors in the game and it is a great challenge to bring it all to play together, not just nicely, but to play together at all! OpenSolaris, as a development platform, is way too much of a moving target to ever even be looked at by a big company. They've got enough challenges as it is working with a production cut.
Yes, my point exactly! :)
It's just that sometimes as a UNIX admin you can see how your company really misses out on something just because you're not allowed to upgrade due to historical or change control reasons... Although having seen how many times change control saved really bad situations, one starts believing that maybe it's not a bad thing to stick to the old, tried and trusted OS for just a bit longer. Thanks for stopping by! See you around! |
