Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/10/11 23:00, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/completely_disabling_root_logins_on http://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/password_caching_for_solaris_su ht

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 is out - so?

2011-11-10 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Oracle announced availabilty of Solaris 11. Do you notice any real news in the O.S. that OI/IllumOS has not? What is the status of the promised sources? Inviato da iPad ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://open

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SMB transfer failure

2011-11-10 Thread Gordon Ross
Can you supply a network trace showing the problem? Preferably one including initial connection setup, so maybe restart the SMB service just before you run your experiment and do capture. Gordon On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Michelle Knight wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Server - 151a Sept 2011. > C

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/10/11 16:42, James Carlson wrote: On 11/10/11 17:07, Jerry Kemp wrote: I have Solaris 11 Express still running on my SparcBlade 2000, because, to the best of my knowledge, there are no OI iso images for Sparc. The fact that Solaris 11 Express runs fine on these systems, and Solaris 11 GA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread James Carlson
On 11/10/11 17:07, Jerry Kemp wrote: > I have Solaris 11 Express still running on my SparcBlade 2000, because, to the > best of my knowledge, there are no OI iso images for Sparc. > > The fact that Solaris 11 Express runs fine on these systems, and Solaris 11 GA > does not load tells me that suppo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Jerry Kemp
Hello Dave, Thank you for the link. I apparently parrot'ed 90% of the URL that you provided below (5) months after the fact. My follow on question, is that in the time that has passed since the event in the URL that you presented, has anything changed regarding support for Sparc? Jerry On 11/

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SMB transfer failure

2011-11-10 Thread Michelle Knight
Hi Folks, Server - 151a Sept 2011. Client - Xubuntu 32 bit. SMB share from the server, (ZFS published) is mounted to the client. Any attempt to copy a file to the server, greater than around 100,000 bytes results in the client reporting an I/O error. A file of 91,738 bytes will transfer. A fil

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 11 Nov, 2011,at 11:07 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Should OI continue to support UltraSparc II/III/IV systems if possible? I sure hope so. Don't know about OI, but Ilumos developers make their feelings known about this in the panel discussion conducted a little while back: http://www.youtub

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Jerry Kemp
Should OI continue to support UltraSparc II/III/IV systems if possible? I sure hope so. I have Solaris 11 Express still running on my SparcBlade 2000, because, to the best of my knowledge, there are no OI iso images for Sparc. The fact that Solaris 11 Express runs fine on these systems, and Sola

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
> Hardware support aside, the most important question should be about ZFS. > If Oracle does not make the latest ZFS code available, will the ZFS we > already have be able to match the "other" ZFS, if it comes to that? > > File system encryption in the latest ZFS is a killer feature, in my > opinion

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 11/10/11 12:33, LinuxBSDos.com wrote: > File system encryption in the latest ZFS is a killer feature, in my opinion. it's very slick functionality but I wouldn't trust it or use it for anything that mattered unless either the source, or a spec detailed enough to allow for an independent interop

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Ron Dawson
Can we run OI on UltraSPARC? I thought it was still only x86? I have a number of old SunFire V250s, V240 and V440 that I'd be interested in keeping going for a while longer yet. I had missed the notice about the official Solaris 11 not working on UltraSPARC III/IV. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:25

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread LinuxBSDos.com
Hardware support aside, the most important question should be about ZFS. If Oracle does not make the latest ZFS code available, will the ZFS we already have be able to match the "other" ZFS, if it comes to that? File system encryption in the latest ZFS is a killer feature, in my opinion. Is any p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Kjar
Come to think of it... do you think OI will be able to continue supporting usparcIII if Oracle doesn't? I don't really care since I really should retire that beast but others might like to know. On 11/10/11 02:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 11/10/11 11:09, Daniel Kjar wrote: First thing I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-10 Thread Oscar del Rio
On 11/10/11 03:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I've done enough damage on an oi setup (b 151a as guest in VB on win7) that when I attempt to start the vm it goes thru grub and stays at the page one sees just before either a console or gui get launched where one sees the oi/illumos logo, and a horizont

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [lame q] point to documentation for rescue type boot

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I knew how to handle this problem sometime in the past, but like so many things, now I need it again I'm sort of drawing blanks. I've done enough damage on an oi setup (b 151a as guest in VB on win7) that when I attempt to start the vm it goes thru grub and stays at the page one sees just before e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/10/11 11:09, Daniel Kjar wrote: First thing I noticed when I tried to install it on my blade1000 was that support for ultrasparc III is now gone. Won't even let you install. Yes, that was announced a while ago on the EOF pages. Support for 32-bit x86 and UltraSPARC II/III/IV CPU's were

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Kjar
First thing I noticed when I tried to install it on my blade1000 was that support for ultrasparc III is now gone. Won't even let you install. All of my remaining systems are going to OI when my support contract runs out (and they are x86). On 11/10/11 02:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Too much

[OpenIndiana-discuss] is the newly released orac-sol 11 an advance compared to oi?

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Too much a noob to be able to figure this out for myself. I see what appears to be a serious lot of new stuff in release notes of oracle-solaris 11. Can anyone compare that new OS with oi espeically considering the usage being a home nas. (So maybe not needing many of the sol 11 enhancements but