Storage What's Happening April 2008
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April 2008 OpenSolaris Storage Community What's Happening
Quotes of the Month
News
- April 7 - Updates to the community web page and a new vanity URL http://opensolaris.org/os/storage
- Added new Metrics page
- Added new Developer page
- Added new Administrator page
- Added new Community Spotlight page
- Updated the projects page
- April 10 - New alias for CIFS projects (Client & server) cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org
- April 17 - DavFS project proposal approved
- April 29 - Sun announced the Open Storage Initiative showcasing the OpenSolaris storage stack. See: http://sun.com/openstorage for more information.
- All press coverage, via a Google search
- Blog posts, via Google search
- Metrics updates
- 1107 message posts (all storage project lists)
- 27276 page views (all storage project pages)
Podcasts/ Interviews
Conferences
- April 7 - 10 - OpenSolaris Kiosk at Storage Networking World
Project Updates
- iSER project
- Design docs for IDM have been updated to document an iSCSI transport API that will be utilized by the iSER transport. This document is posted on the project page: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/iser/idm_design.pdf
- A document containing the proposed usage for the iSCSI port provider CLI (itadm) is also available on the project page with a man page coming in the near future: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/iser/itadm_1m.txt
- ext3 project
- The ext2fs driver is almost complete (including write support)
- The team is working on improving posix-compatibility, bug fixing and so on.
- Next on the list is support for >2GiB files and HTree directories
- COMSTAR project
- Released updated packages
- NOTE: This project is now integrated into build 90!
- Released updated packages
Technical Status
Contributions to Consolidation code
Distributions
- Nexenta team released NexentaStor Developer Edition on April 14th. It can be dowloaded at http://www.nexenta.com/products
Consolidations
April 2008 Newsletter Contributors
Jeff Cheeney
