Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: New Solaris 7 features | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 00:23:56 +0000 (GMT) |
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> - 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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