[osol-discuss] Re: Sun ONE Studio 11 speed ? Integer ops ? floating point ?

2006-01-06 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Could be interesting to see a compiler shootout between: SUN Studio 11, gcc3.4, gcc4.02 [amd64 + sparc] + Intel C Compiler, Pathscale [amd64] I expect Sun's compiler to be the clear winner on sparc against gcc. But about amd64 ... this might be interesting, especially against Pathscale. Programs

[osol-discuss] Unionfs for Zones

2005-09-10 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Hi there, what about a port of Unionfs to Solaris ? I read this wouldn't be too hard for someone who knows about filesystems in Solaris. Unionfs would be perfect for usage within Zones, imagine the following: I want to create 10 Zones, for 10 friends of mine. What I have to do now is COPY all

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: zfs

2005-09-06 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Wow, do you think it's easily portable to the Linux kernel? How long do you think it might take them? That was one of the questions I hoped to get answered with this thread ;) What do you think / Do you know, how much % of the zfs code needs/needed to be rewritten ? Anyway I doubt it

[osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Thanks for your replies, I will wait in suspense for ZFS to come on Solaris and hopefully also on Linux :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] zfs

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Hi there, I would like more infos about: http://www.sun.com/emrkt/campaign_docs/expertexchange/knowledge/solaris_zfs_gen.html#10 Q: Any thoughts on porting ZFS to Linux, AIX, or HPUX? A: No plans of porting to AIX and HPUX. Porting to Linux is currently being investigated. Is this still true ?

[osol-discuss] zfs and acl, resource controls

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Johnsen
hi there, I would like to get known some things for the future of Solaris: 1. http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/samf?anchor=acls_everywhere Things are getting much better with the arrival of ZFS. The goal of ZFS's ACL implementation is to implement NFSv4 ACLs in a way that is compatible with

[osol-discuss] Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Hi there, a week ago I read, that the development resources for the Java Desktop System will be decreased, since JDS stayed behind the expectations. I think it never had the chance to become a platform for third party apps, what would be necessary for a future-oriented unix desktop. Using Gnome

[osol-discuss] Re: Future of the desktop

2005-07-15 Thread Daniel Johnsen
The only thing I have heard about JDS development is that the focus was shifting to JDS/Solaris instead of JDS/Linux. Are you certain about this? Can you quote a source? I don't think SUN would speak this out that directly. They aimed to create an alternate to Windows: