Robert Milkowski's blog

Solaris 10 5/09 aka update 7 is out and available for download . Below are some new features from What's New I found interesting: Suppo...

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Adam blogged about a new software release for the Open Storage . Because I'm testing 7410 model I went thru an upgrade this morning. F...

This is a big surprise! From Oracle's document on the acquisition : • Protects and extends customers’ investment in Sun technologies • ...

One of the many benefits of DTrace vs. truss is that dtrace should induce much smaller overhead for tracing applications especially for mu...

Jeff Bonwick wrote : "Yes -- dedup is my (and Bill's) current project. Prototyped in December. Integration this summer. I'll ...

Joerg reports : "With the announcement of Intel Nehalem support in Solaris, we pointed to some interesting features , but from my persp...

From time to time I can see people trying to be too clever about some problems. What I mean by that is that sometimes they try too hard to u...

Recently I have used Dtrace to change the output of uname() syscall. But if one wants a more permanent and selective approach it is easier ...

Darryl Gove's new book .

My friend ask me why build a Mega Data Center in a desert? Well, when you put a lot of CoolThreads servers you need to somehow keep them w...

I like Jonathan Schwartz blog entries and his last post he clarifies Sun's business model. I like the funny part about free software -...

If you wonder what's coming in storage area and also in ZFS in particular watch Open Solaris Storage Summit . To get your attention her...