[Baylisa] Solaris-related topics -- what would you like to hear about?

[Guy B. Purcell]

On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Robert Novak wrote:

> I'm working with the folks at Joyent to refine our desired topics for
> the August 16 Solaris-themed meeting.
> 
> [...]
> 
> We're already looking at an overview of SmartOS, the current state of
> ZFS, and possibly a revisiting of Dynamic Tracing that we learned
> about last spring.
> 
> But if there's a topic of interest to you that we haven't thought of
> yet, please speak up. We're trying to find enough to interest as many
> attendees as we can.


My wish list:

* Explanation of Illumos itself (vs., say, "OpenSolaris") & current state affairs (forks/spinoffs & comparison to Solaris 11)

* Installation overview (esp. converting a Solaris 10 build environment to build Illumos-based hosts)

* IPS (and perhaps changes to JS due to it) & available publishers/repos

* New features of ZFS in Illumos

* New features of DTrace in Illumos

I think the new features & Illumos overview could be done fairly quickly (and the latter leading into an overview of SmartOS itself, and any other specific forks folks may want to hear about).  I'd love to see the IPS delved into with more depth:  it's something fundamental to at least some of the forks & has never been touched at BayLISA before.

-Guy