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ZFS Hits an Important Milestone, Version 0.6.1 Released 99

Posted by samzenpus from the brand-new dept.
sfcrazy writes "ZFS on Linux has reached what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone with the official 0.6.1 release. Version 0.6.1 not only brings the usual bug fixes but also introduces a new property called 'snapdev.' Brian explains, 'The snapdev property was introduced to control the visibility of zvol snapshot devices and may be set to either visible or hidden. When set to hidden, which is the default, zvol snapshot devices will not be created under /dev/. To gain access to these devices the property must be set to visible. This behavior is analogous to the existing snapdir property.'"

Comment Re:Once again, benchmarks fail (Score 2, Informative) 268

by ens0niq (#29577225) Attached to: FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks
Sorry, sir

From Phoronix:

"The tests that were carried out under FreeBSD 7.2, FreeBSD 8.0 RC1, and Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 included timed ImageMagick compilation"

From freebsd-current mailing list:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask that the FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 ISO-s free from the
> debugging features (WITNESS, malloc debugging, etc.)? Or these
> services are still being active?

They are gone, for the most part. r197065: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=197065

Remove extra debugging support that is turned on for head but turned off for stable branches:

- shift to MALLOC_PRODUCTION
- turn off automatic crash dumps
- Remove kernel debuggers, INVARIANTS*[1], WITNESS* from
GENERIC kernel config files[2]


[1] INVARIANTS* left on for ia64 by request marcel
[2] sun4v was left as-is

Comment Re:I wouldnt make plans to deploy it either (Score 2, Informative) 429

by ens0niq (#28690309) Attached to: Most Companies Won't Deploy Windows 7 — Survey
"Right, it just means 6/10 don't plan to deploy it by the end of next year."
False. Read the fine PDF:

Which below represents the most accurate statement about your plans to deploy Windows 7?

We have no current plans to deploy Windows 7 59.3%
We will likely deploy Windows 7 by the end of 2010 34.0%
We plan on deploying Windows 7 by the end of 2009 5.4%
We have already deployed Windows 7 1.4%

According this 59,3% will skip Windows 7 completely. 34,0% will likely deploy Windows 7 by the end of 2010. Likely.

Comment It can also be installed without physical access (Score 2, Informative) 325

by ens0niq (#27700061) Attached to: Researchers Show How To Take Control of Windows 7
From an interview with authors:

http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/442/2

"How can an attacker deploy it?

Nitin & Vipin: An attacker doesn't need to install, that's the way it has been designed. Just boot the system by placing the vbootkit media (containing vbootkit in bootsectors) in the drive, and start booting. After Vista boots, you can verify that you are running vbootkit, by checking the privilege of any running cmd.exe, the sample converts all low-privileged cmd.exe process to SYSTEM privileges. It also supports system compromise via PXE booting.

It doesn't need any privileges only physical access to the machine. It can also be installed to a remote system under some conditions (without physical access)."
Microsoft

Submission + - HSI to reconsider its vote on OOXML (noooxml.org)

Submitted by
ens0niq
ens0niq writes: "Mr János Kóka, Minister of Economy and Transport, has sent a mail to György Pónyai, General Director of Hungarian Standards Institution (HSI), about its the Hungarian vote on OOXML issue. In this mail the minister informed the director, that the IBM Magyarországi Kft (the Hungarian subsidiary of IBM) signed concerns about the way how the Hungarian vote was decided on the OOXML issue (draft of ISO/IEC DIS 25900 standard) on the meeting of the Committee on 25th June 2007. As known, the meeting was organized breaking the internal rules of HSI on decisive meetings. The invitations for the meeting were not sent to the parties in time, then the voting rules were changed by the secretary of the Committee so that only the 50% of the votes is enough for a decision instead of the 2/3 lied down in the original rules. Because of these circumstances, the counterinterested parties were not able to vote on the meeting, therefore the official Hungarian opinion on the issue is "yes" for OOXML as ISO standard. However because of these anomalies, the minister has ordered HSI to restore the juridical situation, and repeat the vote on 31th August 2007. Since then, new members have been inaugurated to the committee of the HSI, where the only requirement of membership is a fee of 100-200 euros. Many of the new members seem to have tight relationships with Microsoft."

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