illumos

2017-10-09

09:04 PM illumos gate Bug #8391: mr_sas controller lockup on Dell H330

I have also struck the problem again this morning. If you are gong to run Illumos on DELL, get Dell to fit a "normal... Ian Collins

2017-09-12

05:17 AM illumos gate Bug #8391: mr_sas controller lockup on Dell H330

I have been seeing similar problems with the H330, as reported on the SmartOS mail list:
The controller is running... Ian Collins

2014-05-30

12:32 AM illumos gate Bug #1778: Assertion failed: rn->rn_nozpool == B_FALSE, file ../common/libzfs_import.c, line 1077, function zpool_open_func

I think I'm seeing this trying to import the zones pool in a 20 (physical) core SmartOS box. I can't see a work arou... Ian Collins

2013-07-06

09:31 AM illumos gate Bug #3858: Can't build nightly over NFSv4

Attempting to build SmartOS over NFS, my failure (same on two runs) was here:
(cd /mnt/smartos-live/proto.strap &&... Ian Collins

2013-06-30

04:31 AM illumos gate Bug #3853: __cplusplus change and headers incompatibility with clang

No one should be using malloc.h any more, maybe just remove it? Ian Collins

2013-04-24

03:52 AM illumos gate Bug #3721: sys/ctype.h should pragma inline isxdigit

Testing with the current Studio C compiler, the pragma is ignored. The function is inlined from -XO4. If the functi... Ian Collins

2013-04-23

09:14 AM illumos gate Feature #3733: tar could support the -s option

The GNU manual states "This option is probably never needed on modern computer systems.". Is adding this worth the e... Ian Collins

09:10 AM illumos gate Bug #3718: Sun CC ignores 'volatile' for static variables

This issue only appears if the variable is initialised at declaration. Fortunately most "static volatile" variables ... Ian Collins

05:58 AM illumos gate Bug #3721: sys/ctype.h should pragma inline isxdigit

Is the pragma necessary at all? Studio or gcc would inline these in an optimised build either way. Ian Collins