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A big thank you goes out to Areca . Areca have provided the source code for their Solaris driver, including support for the newer 6G RAID adapters. As a result, I've integrated a (somewhat cleaned up) copy this code as an update to arcmsr(7d) in illumos , under generous open source licensing: changeset: 13305:fb26af81b9b2 tag: tip user: Garrett D'Amore date: Fri Mar 25 22:14:56 2011 -0700 description: 834 need support for Areca 1880 6Gbps Reviewed by: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com> Reviewed by: Albert Lee <trisk@nexenta.com> Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <richlowe@richlowe.net> This will make another HBA option available to folks. (Note these cards do support a JBOD mode, so you don't have to use hardware RAID -- indeed I would recommend that you don't when you have ZFS on the disks.

So, at the recommendations of others, I'm on twitter now.. Don't know how often I'll keep it updated, but I'll try.

I just integrated: changeset: 13312:537259ad27f6 tag: tip user: Garrett D'Amore date: Wed Mar 23 08:35:14 2011 -0700 description: 324 need serbian locale support Reviewed by: Rich Lowe Approved by: Garrett D'Amore This is a bit unusual relative to most of the locales, because Serbo-Croatian is a language fraught with some unique political considerations: There is a common root language, that everyone speaks and understands. But speakers of it rarely agree on what to call it. In Serbia its Serbian. In Bosnia its Bosnian. And so on for Croatian and Montenegrin. In illumos , we have followed the Unicode CLDR example, and we now have these locales: hr_HR.UTF-8 - Croatian in Croatia sr_BA.UTF-8 - Serbian in Bosnia and Herzegovina sr_ME.UTF-8 - Serbian in Montenegro sr_RS.UTF-8 - Serbian in Serbia I want to apologize to anyone offended by this decision, but rather than make a contentious decision on our own, I decided it was best to simply follo...

It would appear that the old Planet OpenSolaris is no longer a community site. At least the only blog posts that seem to be there anymore are those that are hosted on blogs.sun.com. Certainly my posts, which used to show up there until quite recently, no longer do so. Its possible that this is just a technical snafu, but the recent burst of posts there from Oracle employees suggest a shuffling of things internally in how Oracle handles blogs, and I suspect that eradication of community posts is just one more step along the way. Of course, if I'm wrong, this post will show up there, and I'll have egg all over my face. :-)

Great news! We ( illumos ) have been accepted as a Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. If you are a student and want to get paid this summer to work on an enterprise grade operating system, please have a gander at our ideas page , and then go ahead and start an application. You can find our application template on our organization information page on the GSoC 2011 site. Good luck to all the applicants!

With this integration: changeset: 13304:b54231762cfa tag: tip user: Richard Lowe date: Mon Mar 14 14:05:30 2011 -0400 description: 243 system manual pages should live with the software Reviewed by: garrett@nexenta.com Reviewed by: gwr@nexenta.com Reviewed by: trisk@opensolaris.org Approved by: gwr@nexenta.com We now have manual pages in illumos . (Only the English pages -- POSIX locale -- are kept in the illumos code repository.) This is key because it means that code and documentation can be maintained together, which is how some other projects (but not Solaris) manage it. So, got a problem with the man(1) pages on illumos? File a bug! There is a category called "manpage"... please let us know, or even better, contribute a fix!

Got a pet project for illumos you would like someone to take up, and would do yourself if you had time? Like working with bright up and coming stars? Are you a student looking to get involved with a nascent community of world class engineers, and have some free time on your hands this summer? Maybe you can participate in Google's Summer of Code . We hope illumos will be selected to participate this. Some ideas are posted on our wiki already, but I'd love to hear other proposals. We have a very short window of time before we have to submit our mentoring org application, so let us know!

I just pushed this for Dan McDonald into illumos : changeset: 13297:4b9dc4ca8e9f tag: tip user: Dan McDonald <danmcd@nexenta.com> date: Fri Mar 04 13:57:09 2011 -0800 description: 701 UNMAP support for COMSTAR Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@nexenta.com> Reviewed by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com> Reviewed by: George Wilson <gwilson@zfsmail.com> Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@nexenta.com> This change represents a significant new feature in COMSTAR and ZFS, which will greatly benefit people use SCSI target mode functionality in situations involving over-provisioning. More on that in a minute... The feature itself was developed by Sumit Gupta for Nexenta , and is part of our upcoming 3.1 release of NexentaStor . Subsequently, Dan took ownership of that code, and working with Eric and George (who are well established ZFS gurus and had significant and useful feedback) improved it still further, and got the...

As promised, I'd send illumos photos from SCALE. Here's the illumos booth staff, from left to right there is Roland, Garrett (your humble author), Delya, Albert, and Rocky. Rocky was there representing Area Data Systems , who are both Nexenta partners and illumos sponsors. We also have a facebook photo gallery up, which seems somehow apropos since we were right next to the facebook both at SCALE. I'm also pleased to report that a number of other Nexenta partners were present as well, showing off Nexenta based products. Next year, we hope they'll be back show casing technology based on illumos and NexentaStor 4.0.