Less known Solaris Features: CacheFS - Joerg Moellenkamp at c0t0d0s0.org offers another installment of his excellent Less known Solaris Features series. Of note: “In the recent days there was some discussion about the declaration of the End-of-Feature status for CacheFS which will lead to the announcement of the removal of CacheFS. After a few [...]
Elektronkind: OpenSolaris 2008.11 - A Preview For The Storage Admin - A look at upcoming storage technologies in OpenSolaris 2008.11, including ZFS, iSCSI, NDMP, COMSTAR, AVS and SAM-QFS. These products really set OpenSolaris apart from Linux distributions, although I wonder how official this list is, and have some doubts about the status of some [...]
Jonathan’s Blog: Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Jonathan Schwartz on Sun’s soon-to-be-released (late this year) flash drives. Quote: “ZFS will transparently incorporate Flash into the storage hierarchy of a running system, using the microprocessor cache for the most performance sensitive tasks, DRAM for the next, then Flash, then disk (then ultimately [...]