* James Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Li Yuan writes: > > Hi, I am going to try open solaris, but I have to get more memory first. > > My questions are as follows. > > How forgiving is open solaris to times when the computer looses power. I > > know this can be a serious problem in windows, but I have had no problem > > when this happened with my ubuntu machine. > > Very forgiving. ZFS is designed to maintain coherent data on the disk > at all times; all writes are scheduled so that the disk data > structures move from one known-correct state to another, so there's no > need for "fsck" or Windows "chkdsk." > > UFS (not used by default anymore) includes a transaction logging > feature that's enabled by default. This also protects against > corruption in case of failure. > > > Right now you need 750 Mb to run the live CD. Is this going to be > > corrected so 512 Mb will work? > > I doubt it. We're generally moving forward in time rather than > backwards, and new machines aren't getting less memory. But do check > with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list about the installer > technology. Perhaps it'd even be possible for you (or someone else > who cares about old systems) to start a project to support that.
Several of us have been working on fixing this for a few weeks now. We're mostly 'there', just a few loose ends to tie up as it were. The formal release of 2008.11 should install on systems with only 512M of ram. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
