Robert Milkowski's blog

Recently I was looking at a possibility of locking some or all memory mappings, for an already running process, in RAM. Why would you want ...

zpool(1M) has a very handy option to display physical disk locations on some hardware. cwafseng3 $ zpool status -l cwafseng3-0 pool: cwaf...

Are you a student and would like to do some interesting coding during the summer? If yes, then check this .

Solaris 11 has a new cool feature called Immutable Zones . Darren Moffat presented new features in Solaris 11 Zones at the last LOSUG meetin...

Next generation file system for Windows: ReFS It looks pretty interesting and promising. Something like ZFS lite for Windows. "The k...

You probably heard about Watson from IBM. Michael Perrone gave a very entertaining presentation on Watson at LISA. Enjoy.

It seems that Oracle has "published" S11 source code after all... And a little bit more on the story .

Last week I attended LISA '11 conference and one of the great and fun presentations was Bryan Cantrill's talk titled "Fork Yeah...

Solaris 11 Express and now Solaris 11 have a new functionality which was long missing in Solaris. It allows to force an application which bi...

Apparently Oracle announced they will port DTrace to Linux. See comments from Adam Leventhal (co-creator of DTrace).

This is probably the first big feature/integration into Illumos. See also Bryan's slides on Experiences Portin KVM to SmartOS .

A little bit too much of unnecessary bitterness towards Solaris 11 but other than that worth watching. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA...