Solaris

Solaris is a highly scalable enterprise grade UNIX Operating System from Sun Microsystems. Solaris is known to run on SPARC and x86/x86-64 architectures, although it has also been ported to PowerPC and IBM zSeries mainframes in a joint effort with IBM.

Commonly used filesystems and / or volume managers on the Solaris Operating System are UFS, ZFS, SAMFS, QFS, Veritas VxFS and Veritas VxVM, AVS as well as the Solaris Volume Manager (Solstice).

External Links

• Sun Solaris homepage
• Sun Blueprints - Using Computer Forensics When Investigating System Attacks
• The OpenSolaris project
• Solaris Internals - The UFS File System - specifications, on disk layout
• Solaris Internals - Getting to know the Solaris filesystems