Storage What's Happening August 2008
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August 2008 OpenSolaris Storage Community What's Happening
Quotes of the Month
- Rick N from storage-discuss: "I'm impressed with the way OS/zfs runs on my little Asus M2N-E MB and the AMD dual-core 64. wow!,..., pkg update-image, zpool create... I'm definitely impressed, not to mention having a blast." (1-Aug)
News
- Henk Vandenbergh blogged Vdbench (a disk and tape I/O workload generator) and Swat (Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Too) are now available
Conferences
- Have you signed up for the Storage Summit - Sept 21, 2008? If not, now is a great time.
Project Updates
- The FUSE project in cooperation with the ntfs-3 community have version NTFS-3g-1.2717 working with FUSE!
- The OpenSolaris CAM project is now live. (12-Aug)
- According to Aaron Dailey's blog NPIV (N Port ID Virtualization) for Opensolaris is now delivered.
- Robert Gordon announced the putback of NFS/ RDMA. This is a milestone delivery of a project developed by students at the Univ of Ohio in conjugation with engineers at Sun.
Community Status
Messages
- Total messages for all storage related lists:
- zfs-discuss (1344 msgs)
- storage-discuss (453 msgs)
- driver-discuss (334 msgs)
- zfs-code (261 msgs)
- nfs-discuss (236 msgs)
Web site
- Top Projects:
- COMSTAR (2500 page views) -- FYI: This is the #8 project in page views
- CIFS Server (2100 p.v.)
- zfs-crypto (2000 p.v.)
- samqfs (1800 p.v.)
- nfsv41 (1500 p.v.)
- Community views:
- ZFS - 33,000 p.pv.
- storage - 2500 p.v.
- NFS - 400 p.v.
- Volume Manager - 400 p.v.
Videos
- Check out the latest at: http://blogs.sun.com/storage/en_US/category/Video
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