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The OpenIndiana community

by projectmeshnet on 6/24/12, 3:05 AM with 6 comments

• by alasdairlumsden on 6/25/12, 4:08 PM

  The author of this post has not stated who he spoke to. I suspect he has spoken to a random from #openindiana on irc.freenode.net, who is not actually an active developer.

  The OpenIndiana developers collaborate on #oi-dev on irc.freenode.net.

  Also the Solaris kernel is excellent and has features that put it ahead of the game in many areas. Take Solaris Zones, the fully virtualised network stack (crossbow), the COMSTAR SCSI (iSCSI/FCoE) target framework, the Fault Management Architecture (FMA), along with a whole host of other advantages, put it significantly ahead of the game. Also thanks to Joyent the illumos kernel supports KVM, something FreeBSD does not.

• by PythonDeveloper on 6/24/12, 3:20 AM

  I spent just a few minutes in the OpenIndiana code base and found it rife with potential issues. For example, in the hsfs file system, there are no pointer assertions to protect against null pointers:

  http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/comm...

  lines 158 thru 171... are just one example.

  While yes, you could find this anywhere in any code base, we're talking about OpenIndiana. If this kind of issue is present in the file system handler, there's NO way this project is ready for prime time, never mind a production release.