On 09/13/17 11:01 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
In my OpenSolaris t-shirt collection, I have one with the slogan:
"Innovation happens everywhere"
I'm not sure this is *entirely* true; Solaris 10 was a massive nexus
of innovation that has proliferated out to other operating systems
over the last decade. Frankly, there's not much else been happening
in systems development.
From what I can see, between the cloying boredom of Linux monoculture
and the dead hand of POSIX "standardisation", systems have stagnated.
Even in illumos, we're largely doing a bit of light gardening - a bit
of weeding here, a bit of pruning there, replanting the odd bush. But
no real landscaping is being done.
Which begs the question - is systems innovation done and dusted?
Hi.
I speak from user perspective, 'the things I want to see in illumos'.
1) Simple zone/system sharing. I just want to create an image and share
it, so that it could be run on bare metal or in zone. And I hope that it
will be able to run on any more-or-less up-to-date illumos distribution.
And it would be good to do something with to make GZ and NGZ more
loosely coupled, so that I shouldn't update them at the same times
(running fresh zones on older kernels). Docker had us in this area.
2) Zone/VM live migration. Don't tell me "it's too hard, use clusters".
I want to have an illumos-based cluster for virtualization purposes,
VMware/Linux KVM/even OpenVZ do it, why can't we?
3) RAIDZ reconfiguration. I want to enlarge pool without introducing new
logical vdev.
4) ZFS shrinking. I've provisioned too much space for this FS on my
storage and want to shrink volume. What should I do?
5) Be usable as OpenStack node (at least compute node).
6) Customizable FMA agents. I want to have generic API for writing
custom agents, which would, for example, allow me to write an agent to
send me a SMS when DBMS service has suddenly gone to maintenance (in ~
10 lines of shell code).
As I understand, 1/2/5 is already implemented (perhaps, partially) in
Solaris 11.
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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
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