Data Center Linux - Initiative Manager Status Reports

Although the Data Center Linux initiative is composed of OSDL members that often meet in private, most of our technical activities are conducted publicly via Special Interest Groups (SIGs), on existing mail lists, or in public forums. These reports include those public and community activities as well as those of the DCL working group.

October, 2005

This month Linux passed the 16K LUN mark and OSDL Legal assisted the NFS V4 test community concerned with posting Solaris 10 interoperability results. DCL held a Face to Face meeting in Beijing with other OSDL initiatives to plan goals for 2006.

September, 2005

A panel of Data Center Linux initiative members that visited NYC Financial Services members gave their trip report to the DCL Technical board. Lesson learned from the trip will fold into the next DCL capabilities document update and action plans will be discussed at the upcoming face to face meeting October 18-20 in Beijing, China.

August, 2005

OSDL's Data Center Linux initiative has released its August status report. This month saw the completion of the DCL initiative's "4k LUNs Testing" effort, which demonstrated use of 4,096 LUNs in a Linux 2.6 server thanks to a previous contribution by NetApp. Another DCL initiative, "NFSv4 Testing", presented at the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Dreamworks, and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and this month received a generous cash donation from NetApp.

DCL member companies published a set of customer success stories this month on Linux retail industry advancements, showing that Linux has greatly reduced costs of point of sale systems and that retail deployments of Linux increased significantly in 2004.

July, 2005