Sun has donated server software source code that implements the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, also known as Server Message Block (SMB), to facilitate Microsoft Windows interoperability. CIFS is the standard for Windows file sharing services. Two OpenSolaris projects have been launched to promote file-sharing between Windows and OpenSolaris, and improve the usefulness of OpenSolaris in data environments that serve NFS and CIFS clients.
The OpenSolaris Project: COMSTAR (Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target) is a software framework that allows a server running OpenSolaris to look like a SCSI storage array to another server. It features extensive LUN masking and mapping functions, multipathing across different transport protocols, multiple parallel transfers per SCSI command, a scalable design approach and works with generic HBAs.
Two new packages for ZFS -- Snapshots 0.9 and Backups 0.2 -- are available on Tim Foster's blog. The changes include additional GUI integration and some simple zenity tools that will allow users to configure services without having to use the command line. These will be found in the GNOME menu under "Administration" after install, Foster writes, including further instructions that some users may require in order to see the change.
Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette has published an updated version of the Solaris Package Companion (SPC), version 0.7, which is a small Korn shell script that helps users define relationships between Solaris metaclusters, clusters and packages, and their respective dependencies.
The OpenSolaris Fault Management Community is hosting the Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) Demo Kit, consisting of a set of PERL and Korn shell scripts which implement an automated harness for executing FMA demos. A downloadable tarball is available for interested readers and can be extracted anywhere on the system. Additionally, Scott Davenport has added support for the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 processors to the kit.
Jim Grisanzio, Tokyo-based OpenSolaris engineering community manager, identified the release of Project Indiana as OpenSolaris Developer Preview as the biggest current news for the community. He shared this information with Sun's Carolyn Wong. Project Indiana is also credited with having made the developer involvement easier through downloads of "Slim Install."
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