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Sun donates storage code to OpenSolaris.org

Monday, April 16 2007 @ 02:12 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde

Sun Microsystems this week announced plans to donate pieces of its storage software and hardware technology to the OpenSolaris open-source developer community.
The company said that it will provide storage offerings to OpenSolaris.org, a Sun-sponsored site, incrementally over the next few months.

The first wave of code from Sun storage technology -- including the Solaris Zettabyte File System, the 128-bit file system in Solaris 10, Network File System Version 4.1 (also called parallel NFS) and YANFS (formerly called WebNFS) -- appeared on the Web site this week.
Sun's donation of its storage source code is a case of too little too late for some users, including Jeff Bast, lead Unix system administrator at Schneider National Inc.
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