1GB Page Size?

Interesting BUG/REF: 6587615 - 1g pagesize support on AMD family 0x10 processors.
So now CPUs can handle 1GB page sizes. Not a big deal but still interesting.

Dell Supports Solaris

That's interesting:

ROUND ROCK, TX SANTA CLARA, CA November 14, 2007 Dell and Sun Microsystems have signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Solaris support services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.

Niagara-2 and Oracle

I guess I'm not the only one who asked himself (and Oracle) - what's the factor for Niagara-2 CPU? Is it 0.25 as for Niagara-1 (except 1.4GHz?!) or is it 0.75? First Oracle guy said it's 0.25... unfortunately they call back and said it is 0.75 actually.

That's bad...

IRON file systems

Very interesting and informative paper on commodity file systems (ext2/3, raiserfs, jfs, xfs, ntfs) reliability (or rather lack of it). Of course we've already known the answer.