I run Solaris 10 at home here and it's just ok I think. Like Thor says they reworked the /etc/init.d start up procedure (like I still can't find where they start sshd at boot) and the gcc you get from sunfreeware takes a little toying with to get working. It tries to use solaris 9 headers so you bascially have to rebuild them.
It seems solid though... it boots alot faster. I haven't used any of the admin tools (although to be honest I never used any of the Sun admin tools that were intended to manage hundreds of servers at the same time). I haven't seen it in a production app although I've heard there are alot of realtime java hooks in the file system to make an atempt to make java perform better. ZFS is just like Tru64's advfs or hpux's file system that gets installed by default. It's a smart filesystem that Sun has really been behind the curve on and it's about time they did something about it. Like I said, DEC had been doing this for years and HPUX installs a smart fs when by default that lets you grow the filesystem. It's shrinking the filesystem that all these things don't do too well. Althogh I haven't used ZFS is it's anything like advfs it's got a little gui that lets you "draw" out the filesystem across your disk array. Whether or not you surrive a disk failure depends on how you have your raid set up. So you probabaly use it in conjunction with Soltice Disksuite. So in the end it's alot like Vertias' vxfs filesystem with a few tweaks. Sun figured out that people buy their products and then install vxfs and the Veritas Volume manager. Sun figured out that they were losing that business. Sun would love to put Veritas out of business... not only for the filesystem but with the clustering software too. -=Eric On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, thorsten Sideb0ard wrote: > > > To anyone working with Solaris 10, how do you like it? Have you tried > > out any of their fancy new tools, are you excited about ZFS whenever > > that comes out? > > I have it on a spare server, and have installed some monitoring stuff on > it to play around with. First difference i noticed was trying to turn off > services and i couldnt find any startup scripts in the /etc/rc > directories. There are admin tools called svcs and svcadm for monitoring > and controlling your services. > It all comes under the banner of the predictive self healing, > and is somewhat like the djbernstein daemontools package for monitoring > other daemons. > > Heres a wee reference: > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/tobin/20040928 > > > -thor > > _______________________________________________ > Bits mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits > _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [email protected] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
