[pca] [[slightly] off-topic Warning]: Solaris 10 SPARC patch 144500-19 and EMC PowerPath

[Don O'Malley]

Hi Martin,

Nope, this is unrelated.
The S10U10 images should never have been made available for download 
last Friday. That was the reason that they were pulled!

To re-iterate this EMC issue is not a problem with Solaris per se, but 
rather a problem with vendors using private interfaces as public ones. 
Then Oracle update one of the private interfaces and all hell breaks loose.
I'm not trying to get into a finger pointing exercise here, as I realise 
that this does not help our customers running Solaris and EMC PowerPath 
(though other vendors do also appear to be impacted), but it is 
important to explain what went wrong here.

John Horne's indication that "Falcon IPStor with DynaPath" is the first 
I've heard that of that product being impacted, though I have seen 
reports that a similar issue may affect the "Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager".

Best,
-Don


On 18/08/11 12:50, Martin Paul wrote:
> Don O'Malley wrote:
>> This is a late breaking issue that we are currently investigating in 
>> partnership with EMC.
>
> Is this by chance the reason why Solaris 10u10 was pulled, after the 
> ISOs were available for download for a few hours last Friday?
>
> Martin.
>

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*Don O'Malley*
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