diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml index b2bd0eda38..9e71b229c4 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.xml @@ -99,11 +99,11 @@

The AWS Marketplace reports that approximately 800 users are running roughly 2000 &os; EC2 instances. This does not count the likely significantly larger number of EC2 instances - launched "directly" through the EC2 API and Console, but at + launched directly through the EC2 API and Console, but at least places a lower bound on usage.

&os; 11.0-RELEASE shipped with support for the "enhanced - networking" support in EC2 C3, C4, R3, I2, D2, and M4 + networking" capabilities of EC2 C3, C4, R3, I2, D2, and M4 (excluding m4.16xlarge) instances. This provides significantly higher network performance than the virtual networking available on older EC2 instances and with older @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ m4.16xlarge instances. Provide tools for improved functionality via the Simple - Systems Manager service: Listing installed packages, checking + Systems Manager service: listing installed packages, checking for updates, adding/removing users, [your favourite sysadmin task goes here]. @@ -172,8 +172,8 @@ and specify alerting conditions. Tools like Grafana can be used to create fancy dashboards using such queries.

-

The Prometheus project provides a utility called the - node_exporter that gathers basic system metrics and serves +

The Prometheus project provides a utility called + node_exporter that gathers basic system metrics and serves them over HTTP. This utility tends to be rather complex, as it has to extract metrics from many different sources. On Linux, files in /proc have no uniform format, meaning @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ exporter a try! It would be nice if we created a set of useful alerting - rules and placed those in /usr/share/examples. For example, + rules and placed those in /usr/share/examples. For example, how can one use this exporter to monitor the state of GEOM-based RAID arrays? Is such information even exported through sysctl? @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@

The &os; 11.0 image on Azure (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/microsoft/FreeBSD110/) - is also available now, in addition to the existing 10.3 + is now available, in addition to the existing 10.3 image.

We fixed an issue where SCSI disks would sometimes fail to @@ -477,44 +477,32 @@ to x11/qterminal 0.7.0):

Standalone applications:

We also have updates for:

@@ -549,65 +537,47 @@ up-to-date:

We also follow the unstable releases (available in our @@ -615,8 +585,10 @@

@@ -884,7 +856,7 @@ 10.2 also reached end-of-life, support for those versions was removed from the Ports Tree.

-

Some major ports were updated to their latest versions: pkg +

Some major ports were updated to their latest versions: pkg to 1.9.4, Firefox to 50.1.0, Firefox-esr to 45.6.0, Chromium to 54.0.2840.100, and Ruby to 2.1.10 / 2.2.6 / 2.3.3. www/node was updated to version 7; version 6 was @@ -922,7 +894,7 @@ -

The Minnowboard is an Atom-based x86 board (Intel E38xx +

The MinnowBoard is an Atom-based x86 board (Intel E38xx Series SoC) in a maker-friendly form-factor: it provides convenient access to pins that can be used to connect peripherals using one of the standard buses: GPIO, SPI, or @@ -930,7 +902,7 @@ x86, so while &os; was able to boot just fine, it lacked support for these buses on the MinnowBoard.

-

As of r310645, HEAD support all three buses via +

As of r310645, HEAD support all three buses via the ig4(4), bytgpio(4), and intelspi drivers. The ig4(4) and bytgpio(4) changes were backported to 11-STABLE; intelspi will be MFCed @@ -971,6 +943,7 @@ compatible with applications written for S3 and Swift.

+

  • Block Storage

    @@ -978,6 +951,7 @@ device images that are striped and replicated across the entire storage cluster.

    • +

  • File System

    @@ -993,49 +967,41 @@ that are running ZFS. User stations would be running bhyve on RBD disks that are stored in Ceph.

    -

    The &os; build includes most of the tools in Ceph. Note +

    The &os; build of Ceph includes most of the tools Ceph provides. Note that the RBD-dependent items will not work, since &os; does not have RBD (yet).

    The most notable progress since the last report:

    @@ -1052,22 +1018,16 @@

    The following setup will get things running for &os;:

      -
    1. - Install bash and link it in /bin -
      2. +
    2. Install bash and link it in /bin
      3. -
    3. - It is no longer necessary to add a definition of - ENODATA to /usr/include/errno.h -
      4. -
    4. - Clone the github repo +
    5. It is no longer necessary to add a definition of + ENODATA to /usr/include/errno.h
      6. + +
    6. Clone the github repo (http://github.com/wjwithagen/ceph.git) and checkout the - "wip.FreeBSD" branch -
      7. -
    7. - Run ./do_FreeBSD.sh to start the build. -
      8. + "wip.FreeBSD" branch + +
    8. Run ./do_FreeBSD.sh to start the build.

    The old build method using automake is no longer used; see @@ -1076,27 +1036,23 @@

    Parts not (yet) included:

    @@ -1117,7 +1073,7 @@ Scheduler information is not used at the moment, because the schedulers work rather differently between &os; and Linux. - But a certain point in time, this would need some attention + But at a certain point in time, this would need some attention in src/common/Thread.cc. Integrate the &os; /etc/rc.d initscripts in the @@ -1167,7 +1123,7 @@ - The &os; Foundation + The &os; Foundation