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OpenSolaris gets ZFS snapshot visualization feature

11/02/2008  
I tested OpenSolaris earlier this year shortly after the developers announced the project's first official release. Although I was impressed with the ease of installation and several other aspects of the user experience, I also pointed out several areas where there was room for improvement. In order to compete with Linux on the desktop, I argued, OpenSolaris has to make its innovative features more accessible to regular end users. One particularly impressive enhancement that helps achieve that goal is the new ZFS snapshot visualization functionality that will be included in the next major release of OpenSolaris.
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Sun Pushes ZFS Deeper Into Solaris

11/01/2008  
"What we've done with this release is taken it down even deeper into Solaris and made this a root file system in addition to being a data file system," Dan Roberts, Director of Data Center Software Product Management told InternetNews.com."So, with this release, you can now run a single file across the board in a Solaris environment."
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Creating New File Systems In Local Zones On Solaris 10

10/21/2008  
We gave Solaris zfs the treatment. Now it's time to go after those zones ;) A while ago (back in May, 2008, I believe), we took a look at working with storage pools using ZFS on Solaris 10. As we know, ZFS stands for the Zettabyte File System and not the Zone File System (which some folks think it does. Not criticizing. It makes more sense than a lot of other things you might get from those initials ;). The point being, we never stopped to take a look at zones and lay down some simple procedures for working with them.
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Solaris 10 5/08 Released: ZFS-Rooted Zones Getting Better!

10/16/2008  
Solaris 10 zfs root filesystems in zones have gotten more robust and much more! Before anyone starts phoning in, I do realize this is not"brand new" :) It's just brand new to me and the place I work. Now that we're starting to pull in some of those Mx000 Series Boxes, we're finally up to date on Solaris 10! Plus, I'm sure it's patched to the gills ;)
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OpenSolaris: a Linux Admin's View

08/20/2008  
How does OpenSolaris, Sun's effort to free its big-iron OS, fare from a Linux user's point of view? Is it merely a passable curiosity right now, or is it truly worth installing? Linux Format takes OpenSolaris for a test drive, examining the similarities and differences between the OS and a typical Linux distro. If you want to sample the mighty ZFS filesystem, OpenSolaris is definitely the way to go.
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Das neue Btrfs 0.16 arbeitet schneller als je zuvor

08/07/2008  
Chris Mason hat auf der Kernel-Mailingliste die Version 0.16 des Copy-on-write-Dateisystems Brtfs vorgestellt. Btrfs gilt als eines der innovativsten Dateisysteme für Linux und bringt ähnliche Features wie ZFS mit. Das ursprünglich von Oracle entwickelte Btrfs steht nun in Version 0.16 zum Download bereit.
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Checking out Opensolaris 2008.05

07/24/2008  
In May of this year, Sun's"Project Indiana" team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, a major milestone on the path to a community-developed Solaris distribution. The release touted several new features: a live-cd, the ZFS filesystem and a completely new packaging interface. Now, while it was Solaris that started me out on my career as a Unix system administrator, these days I find myself far more often in the Linux realm. Can OpenSolaris swing the pendulum back towards Sun? I decided to have a good look at it, to find out...
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Suns Dateisystem ZFS und der Linux-Kernel

07/24/2008  
Nachdem im Mai Gerüchte über eine Aufnahme von Suns Dateisystem ZFS in den Kernel aufkamen, wies Kernel-Entwickler Alan Cox diese nun mit einem Verweis auf die Lizenzpolitik von Sun zurück. Ein Entwickler namens Fred hatte darauf hingewiesen, dass die ZFS-Unterstützung für GRUB nun unter der GPL stehe. Man könne den Code benutzen, um ZFS-Support in den Kernel zu bringen.
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Proposing Read-Only ZFS

07/23/2008  
A recent thread on the lkml discussed a blog entry stating that minimal ZFS support for GRUB was available under the GPL license,"we could now use that code to implement support for ZFS in the Linux kernel." Alan Cox explained,"no we can't. The GPL ZFS bits don't include the various methods that would violate the patent so there is no grant. I've several times asked Sun to simply give permission and they don't even answer. I can only read the Sun motivation one way - they want to look open but know that ZFS is about the only thing that might save Solaris as a product in the data centre so are not truly prepared to let Linus use it." H. Peter Anvin added,"from what I can see, it is an absolutely-minimal read only implementation."
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When Will ZFS Come To Linux?

07/23/2008  
One of the technological advantages that Sun's Solaris (and OpenSolaris) operating systems have over Linux is their ZFS file-system. ZFS has a number of features not found on any of the current-generation Linux file-systems and its a technology many Linux users (especially those in data centers) have long desired. Unfortunately, as ZFS is licensed under Sun's CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License) instead of the GNU GPLv2 or GPLv3, this file-system hasn't been supported within the Linux kernel...
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