Re: New Solaris 7 features

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:23:56 +0000 (GMT)


> - Arithmetic computations get to use 64-bit registers and operations

Except on the half of the ultrasparcs, where 64bit stuff is
mostly disabled because of CPU bugs ;) (See Bugtraq)

> - UFS logging (mount -o logging /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt)

Thats been in for years, I think you just used to pay for it. Its nice
very nice.

> - mount "noatime" support

They're catching up with us

> - TCP performance enhancement with SACK, RFC 2018

In 2.1.x this is good that Solaris has it too - it really helps with hosts
that also talk SACK on bad links. It now looks like most non MS OS's will
be shipping SACK support very soon, and probably MS too.

> - Netscape 4.05

4.05 is insecure, and 4.5 is out ;)

> - directory name lookup cache optimized and now dynamically allocated on
> demand (static before)

We've got one of those too.

> traceroute

Whooo they've finally _10 years after asking_ got traceroute ;)

> - File Access Control Lists "facls" (man setfacl) added with Solaris 2.5.1
> are damn usefull.

Theres a project with those in ext2fs too .

Interesting list. Did they post lmbench figures ;)

Alan

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