Solaris 10 Part 2
RAID Recovery - Solaris 10
Service Management Framework
Because of the above features, the init system on Solaris 10 work differently from the previous versions. It restarts a service in the event it fails to start or if it crashes. If the user stops a service which depends on another service, the second service also will be stopped. Similarly, if they start a service that depends on others, they all will be started. The init system also allows multiple services run parallel.
FireEngine
FireEngine is a new stack built with an aim to improve performance and support future networking technology. It is provided with a unique threading technology that could reduce resource contention.
x86 support
Solaris 10 supports x86 series of Intel microprocessors. Unlike in the previous versions, Solaris 10 offers greater speed and stability to x86. With Sun’s interest in other x-86 like platforms (like AMD Opteron) developers feel that Solaris will be further enhanced for such platforms.
Other important features of Solaris 10 include mdb, the Solaris modular debugger; libumem, a user-land slab allocator introduced in Solaris 9; and pTools, a utility set that extracts information from the /proc file system. Solaris 10 is also provided with Solaris Management Console, a toolbox of administration utilities such as user management, patch management, and performance monitoring.
Solaris 10’s general OS has been enhanced with several features, which focus on improving the speed. These changes, to an extent, help Solaris to get rid of its nickname ‘Slowlaris.’
Summary: Solaris 10 comprises a number of developer-friendly features including DTrace and Zones. It is more stable and faster than the previous versions. In future, it may offer more hardware support.
