A special eWEEK report names the products, applications, and technologies of the last decade that have changed the way people work, play, and live. Limiting the list to 25 of the most significant technologies and products, eWeek found OpenOffice.org and the Solaris 10 Operating System to be two important solutions making a mark in the last 10 years.
India's largest IT magazine Digit published a special 96 page mini book entitled "Fast Track to OpenSolaris" that covers Install, ZFS, DTrace, Source Juicer, and more. Kumar Abhishek, leader of the Mumbai OpenSolaris User Group, authored the piece, described as a "quick and dirty guide to OpenSolaris". The mini book is now available for download.
"Proof of Concept for a Simple Storage Service," an article by Carol Zhang and Case Cao on the Sun Developer Network, briefly introduces the components that make up a storage service, describes in detail how to use Apache web server to set up a proof of concept (PoC) for a simple storage service, and touches on issues affecting storage service in the real world.
Using DTrace to secure a more comprehensive view of IO sizes and alignments than is possible with iostat, for example, is the subject of Lisa Noordergraaf's blog "IO Sizes and Alignments with DTrace." The problem with iostat, she writes, is that while that utility does show the total number of reads and writes, it does not provide the necessary detail about individual sizes and alignments (start addresses) of the IOs as DTrace can.
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