Storage What's Happening September 2008
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September 2008 OpenSolaris Storage Community What's Happening
Quotes of the Month
News
Conferences
- The Storage Summit - Sept 21, 2008 was a huge hit.
- There were 90 attendees
- Presentations from: Ben Rockwood (slides, video), Mike Shapiro, Bill Moore, Evan Powell, Paddy Sreenivasan and Larry Wisneski
- Also a number of lightning talks and a great party.
Project Updates
- (Sept-11) The project to enable > 1TB boot disks was putback into b99! Read the flag day message and ARC Case for details.
- (Sept-11) Paddy Sreenivasan announced the availability of Amanda on OpenSolaris.
- (Sept-11) The NDMP project is now live. The NDMP implementation for OpenSolaris has been approved by the SNIA board as a work in progress implementation. Congratulations Reza & Mark.
- (Sept-15) James McPherson announced the availability of the arcmsr(7d) driver on the x86 and x64 platforms, to support the Areca Technologies SAS and SATA RAID cards.
- (Sept-16) James McPherson announced the integration if the ITU construction tools (PASRC/2008/431). James says "If you've ever wanted to make a new driver or utility available to the user at installation time, four tools are now available to make this a whole lot easier"
- (Sept-23) Greg Mathews blogged about the introduction of the MMS project (PSARC 2007/420) into build 97.
Community Status
Messages
- Total messages for all storage related lists: 1366
- A 26% growth in message traffic year over year, but
- a 21% drop in message count from Aug
- There were a total of 4724 messages on the storage related forums for the quarter Jul - Sept.
- This represented a 66% growth over the same quarter last year, and
- a 6% growth over the April - June quarter.
- The top forums:
- (membership): zfs-discuss -- 1348 members
- (messages) zfs-discuss -- 593 messages
Web site
- Top Projects:
- COMSTAR - 2,751 page views (p.v.)
- cifs-server - 2,175 p.v.
- zfs-crypto - 1,832 p.v.
- samqfs- 1,499 p.v.
- avs - 1,409 p.v.
- Community views (projects and communities):
- The pages views saw an 11% decline in September (m/m), but
- Page views increased 20% year over year.
- Comparing the total page views for July - September quarter, there was a 30% growth over 2007!
Videos
- Check out the latest at: http://blogs.sun.com/storage/en_US/category/Video
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