Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351Self Review]

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Joseph Kowalski wrote: John Plocher wrote: Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit 1.2. Name of

Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351Self Review]

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Joseph Kowalski wrote: John Plocher wrote: Joseph Kowalski wrote: Sorry, I want a fast-track. What are the architectural (as opposed to C-Team, Design or RE) issues? 1) I believe this is an incomplete project. This sounds to me like go boil the ocean scope creep. Sometimes

Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351Self Review]

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
James Carlson wrote: Joseph Kowalski writes: John Plocher wrote: Joseph Kowalski wrote: Sorry, I want a fast-track. What are the architectural (as opposed to C-Team, Design or RE) issues? 1) I believe this is an incomplete project. This sounds to me like go boil the

Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351Self Review]

2008-05-31 Thread Roland Mainz
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Joseph Kowalski wrote: I don't see why /usr/gnu/bin/awk should get preference over /usr/bin/awk just because its in gnucore. How about because it's already known to be 64-bit clean since the GNU utilities run on platforms that are 64-bit only, while the Solaris

zpool autoexpand property [PSARC/2008/353 Self Review]

2008-05-31 Thread Ceri Davies
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2008/353 [zpool autoexpand property]

2008-05-31 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Glenn Skinner wrote: Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:19:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Ahrens ahrens at sac.sfbay.sun.com Subject: zpool autoexpand property [PSARC/2008/353 Self Review] ... B. PROBLEM With the addition of Dynamic LUN Expansion (PSARC 2006/373),

Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit [PSARC/2008/351

2008-05-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
In this case, the 32 bit versions have capacity limits that are affecting Roland and he wishes to remove those limits. This is not at all a performance issue, but a make it work better one. Last I heard, unless there was some benefit to be gained, 64-bit was usually _slower_ on SPARC than

2008/353 [zpool autoexpand property]

2008-05-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Glenn Skinner wrote: Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:19:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Ahrens ahrens at sac.sfbay.sun.com Subject: zpool autoexpand property [PSARC/2008/353 Self Review] ... B. PROBLEM With the addition of Dynamic LUN Expansion (PSARC 2006/373),