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:
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zfs recursive snapshots
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Double Parity RAID-Z -
raidz2
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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 on
docs.sun.com.