[ug-bosug] A brief review of Nexenta

[Moinak Ghosh]

Sriram Narayanan wrote:

> On 6/3/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> <snip/>
>
>>    The I/O scheduler reorders I/O requests and combines adjacent 
>> requests
>>    into a single one. On initial testing I am seeing a 20 second
>> reduction in
>>    boot time. So Xfce boot takes 1 min 40 seconds on my ferrari laptop
>>    with network enabled. It will be faster on a desktop since the 
>> Ferrari's
>>    CDROM is really slow.
>>
>
> Ack. Should be nice to see on a Live CD :)
>
> Would this benefit a desktop install too ?

   The above is specifically meant for CDROM access improvement. For
   the harddisk case we need to attack UFS which is till now the standard
   filesystem on OpenSolaris. With UFS the specifics are somewhat different
   and this makes for an interesting project to investigate I/O 
scheduling for
   UFS.

   In addition when ZFS root becomes standard then in any case desktop
   performance will increase as ZFS has many improvements along with an
   I/O scheduler.

> On Belenix 0.4.3a installed onto my laptop, I get a 56 second statup
> for an XFCE desktop - that's from hitting enter at grub, logging on as
> root with an 8 character password, executing startxfce4, and then
> being able to right click on the XFCE4 desktop.
>
>> > 2. Lack of easily available documentaion on the LiveCD
>> > Neither at their site, nor on the console mode on the boot up mode.
>>    To be fair BeleniX also needs a bunch of docs on the CD though the
>>    site and Wiki has docs.
>>
> Yup. I'm working on a doc for this :)

   Cool thanks.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> -- Sriram
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