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What's new in Solaris 10 10/09 aka U8

Wednesday, October 7. 2009

On docs.sun.com you can already find the Solaris 10 10/09 Release and Installation Collection. This release brings some interesting features: The long awaited user and group quotas in ZFS, support of L2ARC, faster patching and parallel zone patching.

Beside of this several other changes found their way into the newest Solaris release:

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

You will find more information about the changes in the "Solaris 10 10/09 What's New" available at docs.sun.com as well.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris, Sun/Oracle at 20:47 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)
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The links are not updated but the the images are available for download, i've posted them on my blog: http://sparcv9.blogspot.com/2009/10/solaris-10-1009-update-8-available.html

#1 Henrik Johansson (Homepage) on 2009-10-07 23:22 (Reply)

"What's new" says
ZFS-root installation
with flash works.

Install Guides still say
it doesn't work.

My test would NOT allow
it.

I believe this feature actually does not exist yet. Anyone know?

I created a flar under ZFS and tried to install it with ZFS root.

./check validates the
profile syntax (flash install with a ZFS root), but the actually miniroot logic rejects it

#2 Marc Rossner on 2009-10-08 00:29 (Reply)

Hi Marc, long time no see. There is some info on restrictions here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/flash/ The only one that looks like a possibility for your problem is the pool naming requirement.

#2.1 Boyd Adamson on 2009-10-08 08:58 (Reply)

I am just wondering if it's possible to get all the cool zfs features via smpatch update if you are running an older version of Solaris 10? Or is it necessary to do an upgrade?

#3 Sebastian (Homepage) on 2009-10-08 12:00 (Reply)

@sebastian:

You would want the ZFS Genesis patch: 122640-05 (or 122641-06 for x86)

#3.1 Brian on 2009-10-09 04:09 (Reply)

Sorry figured it out.

I was sure for ZFS "initial-install" you didn't have to have "partitioning explicit" in the profile

but for ZFS-flash you do (miniroot doesn't parse your profile right without it)

However, "check" succeeds either way.

I'll call it "flaw" in miniroot (it should see you are doing ZFS-root, and not squawk if you are missing "partitioning explicit" in profile

#4 Marc Rossner on 2009-10-08 21:09 (Reply)

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