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.
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