[ug-bosug] BeleniX 0.4.4 available

[Ashok Kumar]

Hi Moinak,

any way u had a bad practice of replying  to your own mail.

but why you did only with "opensolaris-discuss".

here also you can...

any way i am informing this news on behalf of you Moinak....

 hi folks, this message he forgot to tell to this grp

"-----------------------
  Bad practice of replying to my own email, but forgot to mention
  one item. The source code and diffs for the HSFS changes can be
  downloaded from:

http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/hsfs_iosched.tar.gz
 --------------"

Moinak, this is important news for developer's ya............


regards
Ashok


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On 7/11/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> After some gap another BeleniX revision is now available. The
> following are some of the stuff that goes into this release:
>
> * Upgraded to the OpenSolaris source snapshot: 20060626.
> * The most important feature of this release is the development of
> an I/O scheduler for the HSFS module. The I/O scheduler enhances
> CD/DVD read performance using the following techniques:
> I/O reordering using the CLOOK algorithm, I/O coalescing, semi-
> asynchronous readahead for sequential reads.
>
> All these techniques together deliver upto 24 second reduction in
> LiveCD boot time. That apart these enhancements benefit general
> data CD read performance for a variety of scenarios like install
> from CD/DVD, playing audio/video files from CD etc.  While
> testing using a patched Solaris Express install DVD, upto 9 min
> reduction in install time was observed on a fast AMD64 desktop.
> A detailed write-up with the DTrace profiling results will follow
> soon.
>
> * Updated drivers and device support.
> * Addressed some bugs and rfes. One bug caused harddisk installs to
> remain incomplete.
> * Slight improvement in Xorg startup time by reducing the number
> of path lookups (and ENOENTs) that Xorg has to do to locate the
> modules. The workaround was to create symbolic links in
> /usr/X11/lib/modules/solaris
> * Introduced a new partition (including extended partitions) viewing
> tool (/usr/bin/partmgr). It also paves the way for the ability to
> utilize Linux swap (primary or extended) in future releases.
>
> See the website (www.belenix.org) for further details.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
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