Hi, There are a variety of devices in the embeded world. One company is interested in data integrity feature of ZFS.
Important thing is how to configure functions of OpenSolaris by requirement of devices. One example is utstune command in this release. It can disable or enable specific features in ZFS. We confirmed that OpenSolaris could boot and login on the ARM board with 8MB memory and no-swap. And X11/Firefox is running on the ARM board with 128MB memory. Thanks, Koji Uno Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: > Hmm, do we really need SMF, ZFS and all that stuff on embedded device? > The question is which Solaris features are more important then others > on that 'mini' world? > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Roland Mainz<roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> > wrote: >> Piotr Jasiukajtis wrote: >>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Roland Mainz<roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> >>> wrote: >>>> Erm... and how much memory is left for normal applications ? Such a >>>> configuration will boot&&run but if you then run something which >>>> consumes 60-70MB then the machine will quickly start to crawl (I've >>>> firsthand experience with an Ultra5 with 256MB running X11+Netscape4 >>>> quite nice... but when I try to use gcc to compile even a small part of >>>> OS/Net the machine spends most of it's time swapping like mad). My point >>>> was to reduce the kernel's memory consumption (and maybe finding an >>>> alternative for ZFS which is less memory+CPU hungry and more suited to >>>> the needs of embedded devices) which is currently simply "too much". >>> That old machine uses ZFS root also.. but anyway I know what is the point :) >> Well, Solaris once ran on 32MB machines including X11. AFAIK we may not >> be able to reach that goal anymore (at least not with SMF, other >> XML-depending stuff, i18n+l10n support etc.) but 128MB with X11 running >> is AFAIK a realistic goal... >> >> ---- >> >> Bye, >> Roland >> >> -- >> __ . . __ >> (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org >> \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer >> /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 >> (;O/ \/ \O;) >> > > >
