Monthly Archive for October, 2009

And five months later, another Solaris 10 release, with some very nice ZFS enhancements. You can download and use Solaris 10 U8 10/09 for free.

• System Administration Enhancements
  • Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
  • pcitool Utility
  • ZFS Features and Changes
    • ZFS and Flash installation support
    • Setting ZFS user and group quotas
    • Using ZFS ACL pass through inheritance for execute permission
    • Using cache devices in your ZFS storage pool
    • ZFS property enhancements (like properties to control the behavior of the ARC and the L2ARC
    • ZFS log device recovery
    • ZFS ACL Sets
  • nss_ldap shadowAccount Support
  • Sun Validation Test Suite 7.0 Patch Set 6
• Installation Enhancements
  • Turbo-Charging SVR4 Packaging
• System Resources Enhancements
  • Zones Parallel Patching
  • PVIO Drivers in Solaris 10 Guest Domains
• Device Management Enhancements
  • iSCSI Initiator SMF Service
  • LSI 6180 Controller Support in Solaris MPxIO
• System Performance Enhancements
  • Callout Subsystem Scalability
• Driver Enhancements
  • Driver for LSI MPT 2.0-Compliant SAS2.0 Controllers
  • x86: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver
  • x86: Interrupt Remapping Support for Intel Vt-d
  • x86: SATA Tape Devices Supported by the AHCI Driver
  • Sun StorageTek 6Gb/s SAS PCIe RAID HBA Driver
  • Intel 82599 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
  • Intel 82598 10Gb PCI Express Ethernet Controller
• Freeware Enhancements
  • NTP Version 4.2.5
  • PostgreSQL 8.1.17, 8.2.13, and 8.3.7
  • Samba 3.0.35

Also, some features were removed within this Solaris 10 release.