[osol-discuss] Opensolaris (ON IPS) code swarms

2008-11-20 Thread Albert White
http://blogs.sun.com/albertw/entry/opensolaris_code_swarms Cheers, ~Albert -- Albert White - Sun Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-09 Thread Albert White
for me. Actually I don't bother with lockfs either. But I do add hot spares if I have the disks spare. I'd agree that its easy and reliable. Automate-able too. Cheers, ~Al -- Albert White - Patch System Test - Sun Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/albertw

Re: [osol-discuss] Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Albert White
. And the architecture then provides for things like Live Upgrade, Zones and Diskless clients to work. Having said all that I do think there is improvement needed in the tools. Cheers, ~Al [1] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5506/6mkv6ki6k?a=view -- Albert White - Patch System Test - SUN

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Reasons to change to Solaris

2005-10-07 Thread Albert White
Martin 'MC' Brown wrote: This is standard functionality in nearly all package-managed Linux distributions, but the only way I know of for keeping up to date in this way with Solaris is to pay for full support, and then AFAIK it is limited to patches, rather than downloading and installing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-09 Thread Albert White
case its something else to think about for a purely package based approach. Cheers, ~Al [1] yes you use patches to update packages and in that sense sun update connection is managing packages. Thats probably what Chris meant, but I'm clarifying it just in case! -- Albert White - Patch System

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-08 Thread Albert White
level management system then thats great. But its a separate discussion from whether to use the SVR4 package architecture. Cheers, ~Al -- Albert White - Patch System Test - SUN Ireland ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: Can we start OpenSolaris PMS enhancement project ?

2005-08-06 Thread Albert White
Hi, http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/albertw?entry=updaing _software_in_the_open Updaing? ok ok so I didn't spellcheck the title! guilty. To die up? huh? Btw, interesting comments there as well :-) hmm... not very relavent are they. Deleted. Thanks Dragan, ~Al This message posted from