[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 @ 19:07 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> > You know, I came across a blog post from a guy at Sun discussing exactly
> > this:
> > 
> > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/yglee#enter_raid_z
> > 
> > YMMV, etc.
> 
> Ooh.  I like the self-healing-data aspect.  I think that's worth
> violating a few abstraction barriers to get, as long as nothing gets
> functionally broken in the process.

I think the point is there should not be a need to violate the
abstractions.

It was probably done because it is easier to integrate it all.

I've never really felt like Solaris had a good virtual filesystem layer
anyway.  Everything feels like it was kind of glommed on as an
afterthought.

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