You may have noticed this notification: HADOOP-11985 Improve Solaris support in Hadoop
So I thought it might be helpful if I gave a bit of background. The intent is to get Hadoop to the point where it builds "Out of the box" with all native components on Solaris and then consider what, if any, further work should be done. I work in the Solaris engineering group, colleagues from our performance and ISV groups are also involved.
I've moved all the Solaris-related issues I've found so far to be sub-tasks of HADOOP-11985, if you are aware of others please feel free to either add them as subtasks or link to them from HADOOP-11985.
I'm also part of a team that's looking at Solaris-Linux compatibility issues so if there are changes we could make to Solaris to make things easier I'd be interested to hear about them as well, although that's obviously a longer-term option.
-- Alan Burlison --
