SPARC support for Fast Reboot [PSARC/2010/030 Self Review]

2010-02-03 Thread Torrey McMahon
Or even better which drivers aren't supporting quiesce on the system in question. On 2/3/2010 3:38 PM, Margot Miller wrote: mm14424 at opensolaris:~$ pfexec reboot -f dryrun reboot: not all drivers have implemented quiesce(9E) mm14424 at opensolaris:~$ It would be more customer/system admin

iSCSI Boot patch binding [PSARC/2010/011 Self Review]

2010-01-11 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 1/11/2010 5:40 AM, Ran Jack Meng wrote: Hi Torrey, Most things in concern is in documentations, please kindly refer to my answers inline. Torrey McMahon wrote: Hi Mark and company. How will the installer, and the customer, know that they can't use the iSCSI boot device as dump

iSCSI Boot patch binding [PSARC/2010/011 Self Review]

2010-01-08 Thread Torrey McMahon
Hi Mark and company. How will the installer, and the customer, know that they can't use the iSCSI boot device as dump device? How does that get squared away with swap devices being the default dump device? Will dumpadm detect that the system is using iSCSI and produce an error? What rev of

Management Network Address for COMSTAR logical unit [PSARC/2009/391 Self Review]

2009-07-13 Thread Torrey McMahon
Hi John. I can see plenty of use for this but is there a way to not set the field if a customer doesn't want to expose the management URL to the host consuming the LUN? I'd think there might be some more security conscious types that would prefer things that way. On 7/13/2009 12:23 PM, John

PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS 2.0 controller

2009-04-22 Thread Torrey McMahon
controllers regardless customer hook SAS or SATA drive to the controllers. Thanks Javen Torrey McMahon wrote: Is mpt_sas going to replace mpt? Or could both drivers be loaded at the same time? If mpt_sas is going to support SAS and SATA drives isn't the name a a little confusing

PSARC 2008/443 Driver for LSI MPT2.0 compliant SAS 2.0 controller

2009-04-20 Thread Torrey McMahon
Is mpt_sas going to replace mpt? Or could both drivers be loaded at the same time? If mpt_sas is going to support SAS and SATA drives isn't the name a a little confusing? On 4/20/2009 12:57 AM, Cecilia Hu wrote: I am sponsoring this fast tack for Javen Wu and Dolpher Du. It is to provide a

2009/211 SMIT for OpenSolaris

2009-04-01 Thread Torrey McMahon
Will this case include the secure shell variant of smit, sshmit? On 4/1/2009 11:55 AM, James Carlson wrote: I'm just tickled pink to sponsor this request for Dan McDonald. The change looks entirely obvious to me, so I've marked it as closed approved automatic. OpenSolaris currently lacks

iSCSI Target PGR directory for ZVOLs [PSARC/2009/168 Self Review]

2009-03-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
Jim Dunham wrote: There will be an forthcoming iscsitgt man page describing this change, and how to make the SCSI-3 PGR data follow the ZFS Storage Pool, and thus any ZVOLs created out of this storage pool. Is there a reason this shouldn't be the default behavior?

iSCSI Target PGR directory for ZVOLs [PSARC/2009/168 Self Review]

2009-03-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 3/12/2009 3:44 PM, Jim Dunham wrote: Torrey, Jim Dunham wrote: There will be an forthcoming iscsitgt man page describing this change, and how to make the SCSI-3 PGR data follow the ZFS Storage Pool, and thus any ZVOLs created out of this storage pool. Is there a reason this

Sun Studio C/C++/dbx Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/19/2009]

2009-01-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
Doesn't the method by which you deal with parallel delivery of packages, be it gcc or sunstudio, and any linking impact the install location and default path? On 1/12/2009 2:28 PM, Chris Quenelle wrote: Rainer, You raise some good points. What would you recommend to resolve your issues?

Sun Studio C/C++/dbx Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/19/2009]

2009-01-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 1/12/2009 4:13 PM, Chris Quenelle wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Doesn't the method by which you deal with parallel delivery of packages, be it gcc or sunstudio, and any linking impact the install location and default path? There is no default path because this is a bundled

Sun Studio C/C++/dbx Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/19/2009]

2009-01-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 1/12/2009 5:13 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: Chris Quenelle wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: I might be asking a lot here but it would be nice if there was some CLI/GUI widget that lists all of the relevant versions and lets a user select the one they want to be their preferred version. Netbeans

Sun Studio C/C++/dbx Collection [LSARC/2009/017 FastTrack timeout 01/19/2009]

2009-01-12 Thread Torrey McMahon
On 1/12/2009 7:02 PM, Chris Quenelle wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: What's the plan for systems that have multiple users or users that require access to different versions at different times? In theory you'd want to allow a user to have access to multiple versions of the {toolkit

Openproj for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/464 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
Jim Li wrote: Torrey: Not to start a flame-fest here but haven't we seen a lot of other projects come across lately that integrate functionality that matches an other project? Why would this be different? I don't think it is a problem to have duplicate functionality, personally. I would

Openproj for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/464 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
. In particular if different users on the same system choose different defaults is that a problem? Sounds like no but I am not sure. -edh Torrey McMahon wrote: Jim Li wrote: Torrey: Not to start a flame-fest here but haven't we seen a lot of other projects come across lately that integrate

cdrdao for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/472 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: Torrey McMahon Torrey.McMahon at sun.com wrote: I wouldn't say it's not important. Plenty of CD's on the list I sent out earlier, right? It it was important, why don't people ask for the feature? Why did people build a piece of code that does the work

cdrdao for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/472 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-25 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: The real problem with cdrdao is that it is based on a very outdated version of libscg and that it does not know about Solaris fine grained priveleges. Another problem is that it has not really been enhanced since more than 2 years. You should try to find out

Openproj for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/464 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-24 Thread Torrey McMahon
Not to start a flame-fest here but haven't we seen a lot of other projects come across lately that integrate functionality that matches an other project? Why would this be different? Brian Cameron wrote: Irene: LSARC 208/454 Planner: project management tool for the Gnome desktop is also

Openproj for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/464 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-24 Thread Torrey McMahon
Brian Cameron wrote: Torrey: Not to start a flame-fest here but haven't we seen a lot of other projects come across lately that integrate functionality that matches an other project? Why would this be different? I don't think it is a problem to have duplicate functionality, personally.

cdrdao for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/472 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-24 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: Jerry Tan Jerry.Tan at Sun.COM wrote: 3. Business Summary Cdrdao is used widely in opensource world to create CD in DAO mode, Ubuntu has cdrdao in its repository, we need to add it also into our repository. What programs do _need_

cdrdao for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/472 FastTrack timeout 07/29/2008]

2008-07-24 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joerg Schilling wrote: Torrey McMahon Torrey.McMahon at Sun.COM wrote: What programs do _need_ cdrdao that cannot use cdrecord also? Both cdrdao and cdrecord support DAO mode. but cdrdao has several features that missing from cdrecord. 1. extract hidden Audio

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

2008-05-30 Thread Torrey McMahon
Matthew Ahrens wrote: [SNIP] D. MANPAGE DIFFS The following text will be added under the Properties section: autoexpand=on | off Controls automatic pool expansion when the underlying LUN is grown. If set to on, the pool will be resized according to the size of

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

2008-05-30 Thread Torrey McMahon
Matthew Ahrens wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Matthew Ahrens wrote: [SNIP] D. MANPAGE DIFFS The following text will be added under the Properties section: autoexpand=on | off Controls automatic pool expansion when the underlying LUN is grown. If set to on, the pool

Classifying FOSS (was Re: Integrate Unison into Solaris)

2008-03-31 Thread Torrey McMahon
Joseph Kowalski wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: Why we still do architecture review, or discussions, over email is beyond me. Email is horrible tool for such things. Con-calls are a close second. So, if these are bad, what is good? Only meetings (which are pretty

Classifying FOSS (was Re: Integrate Unison into Solaris)

2008-03-28 Thread Torrey McMahon
Nicolas Williams wrote: All what John Plocher said. +1 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:13:18AM -0700, John Plocher wrote: 300-message fasttracks, ratholes about filesystem(5) and beating up Bart all fall into the adds so much negative value that we should simply shoot the horse and get over

Integrate libdvdnav into Solaris [PSARC/2008/225 FastTrack timeout 04/03/2008]

2008-03-27 Thread Torrey McMahon
Gary Winiger wrote: Is there a corresponding dvd player expected? It seems odd to have just a library without an application or browser plugin. Did anyone notice that the code itself hasn't been touched since 2004? The dev list looked pretty dead too. If its good stuff to have

How to waste everyone's time and give the ARC process a bad rep (was Re: star access control [PSARC/2008/176...])

2008-03-20 Thread Torrey McMahon
insert Torrey's standard rant about doing architecture reviews over email is nuts to begin with insert Torrey's standard rant about architecture reviews require better tools P.S. John I took you off the cc list. :-) Darren Reed wrote: In all of this emailing, can I please ask for something

2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]

2008-01-23 Thread Torrey McMahon
James Carlson wrote: Freeman Liu writes: James Carlson wrote: Given that /dev/dsp is a well-known name, and applications are quite likely to find it entirely by accident (for example, by way of ./configure tests), how will it be kept reasonably private until you're ready to expose

2008/043 [Phase 1 of OSS for Solaris]

2008-01-23 Thread Torrey McMahon
Freeman Liu wrote: Why do I see a configure script being written in the near future with a comment that says For some %#$%@ reason Sun calls its dsp device private_dsp. This is pretty weird but we can look for it anyway. Where is this script come from ? For OSS, /dev/dsp is

2007/271 HME/QFE updates

2007-05-30 Thread Torrey McMahon
Garrett D'Amore wrote: Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: Garrett D'Amore wrote: This case is transitioning to waiting need-spec, until I can find some time to figure out what to do about Sun Trunking migration. No timeline on when I'll get to this. If folks have an interest in helping out

2007/047 /usr/gnu: gnu(5) manual page

2007-01-26 Thread Torrey McMahon
Alan Coopersmith wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Distribution - I can't get to the source, I don't trust the source. I want Sun to check things over and bundled it accordingly Sun doesn't do a full in-depth review of the sources we get from other communities, so we don't really have

2007/047 /usr/gnu: gnu(5) manual page

2007-01-24 Thread Torrey McMahon
James Carlson wrote: If that's not the assertion, and if all we're building is an FSF-purist garden, then I fail to see the point. Linux users will be offered a bewildering array of /usr/gnu, /usr/schilly, /usr/moz, /usr/expat, and others. I saw we find all the versions the linux distros

[osol-arc] proposal: remove subject line tagging for the opensolaris-arc list.

2006-09-29 Thread Torrey McMahon
Darren J Moffat wrote: Bill Sommerfeld wrote: Long-standing ARC conventions put the case number in the subject line of ARC-related email. Between that and the [osol-arc] tag inserted by mailman, there is precious little room in the Subject: line for actual descriptive content and I find it

[osol-arc] Re: ARC reviews, land register entries and star

2006-09-26 Thread Torrey McMahon
I'm lost as well. Is the issue... Why is anyone updating tar at all? Why did someone put ZFS acl support in tar? Why wasn't it documented? Why wasn't the ARC case listed? Joseph Kowalski wrote: Still, doesn't it seem like having uncovered this issue, that contact between Joerg and the quite

[osol-arc] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Re: Korn Shell 93Integration[PSARC-EXT/2006/550 Timeout: 09/27/2006]

2006-09-21 Thread Torrey McMahon
Josh Hurst wrote: Do you not have arguments to put the libraries into /lib and you do not have any arguments against it. Roland and April are laying the foundation for future work and in my opinion it should be their decision where they want to place the libraries. WRONG! - He says in his