OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Posted Jul 18, 2010 6:58 UTC (Sun) by fredi@lwn (subscriber, #65912)
In reply to: OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H) by Cyberax
Parent article: OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Features (in short)
IPMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPMP)
MPXIO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Multiplexed_I/O)
GFS (sorry, no quick link here but in short it's a cluster block device)
Zones that work out of the box with separate network stack (paravirtualisation, at least on vanilla linux kernles it's nearly impossible to do it)
Clustering that works out of the box (just few nodes though, max 16 but it's HA)
Hardware fault tolerance.
Dtrace/ZFS/ co, but others pointed that

It is a slow but damn stable system.

As about graphics, it sucks, but i dont think that was the target for them.

disclaimer: I've worked a lot with solaris but i have linux on my laptop from ~ 2001.

OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Posted Jul 18, 2010 7:04 UTC (Sun) by fredi@lwn (subscriber, #65912) [Link] (2 responses)

I forgot, but well, is not related to solaris exactly, it's more about sparc. OBP (http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/Startup_and_shutdown/...)

It's a life saviour when you are far from the machine's room.

OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Posted Jul 18, 2010 9:21 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (1 responses)

Many higher-end x86 servers have similar capabilities. Sadly relatively few of them are supported by coreboot or anything similar, and you're stuck with a slow and bloated proprietary BIOS.

OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Posted Jul 20, 2010 14:04 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Also, OpenPROM always works. Intel IPMI BMPs lock up all the damn time: more often than not, it's locked up when you want to use it, and to fix it you have to *pull the power cord out*.

OpenSolaris governing board threatens dissolution (The H)

Posted Jul 19, 2010 5:27 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

linux has clustering, several different variations so that you can pick which one applies to your problem best.

as for it working 'out of the box', that depends on how you define that phrase.

I believe that Linux also has support for GFS

hardware redundancy is not an operating system feature, it's a hardware feature. Put the question another way, why should someone use Solaris instead of Linux on commodity hardware?>