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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Sun Unveils Breakthrough Dynamic File System in Solaris 10 OS

Sun Microsystems: "Sun Microsystems [today] previewed its new file system technology in the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). The fourth breakthrough Solaris technology introduced this year through the Software Express program, Solaris Dynamic File System represents a dramatic advance in the file system/volume manager model of computer data management by automating many common tasks that system administrators do today. Solaris is the world's most popular enterprise UNIX operating system and runs virtually all of the major enterprise applications available today. Dynamic File System is the industry's only self-healing, self-managing OS file system technology that provides 16 billion billion times more capacity than current file systems for virtually unlimited scalability. Dynamic File System is constantly reading and checking data to help ensure it is correct, and in the case it detects an error in a mirrored pool, the technology can automatically repair the corrupt data."

And in the other corner, Sun's "other" OS offering, the proprietary UNIX variant called Solaris. Frankly, I'm surprised Solaris is still around. It seems like Linux would do the trick, and it would be simpler to support a single, more accepted alternative.

More:

Solaris 10 preview
Download Solaris 10 beta

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