The Days of SysAdmin Numbered?

gmkeegan writes "The Economist is running a story about Sun's new N1 operating system whose purpose is to make today's system administrators redundant. The idea is to virtualize the computer system so that the automated resource management software can add, remove and manage everything dynamically. The article mentions similar efforts by IBM, HP, and Microsoft."

Comments

Re:Sys Admins are never going away

[Trevelyan]

sweet ur sysadmin haven't disabled floopy boots =) i'll just get my linux boot disk and r00t them boxes. (i'll bet that the lan thier trusts local root users, if not i'll still be able to su happily =)

my uni not only disable floppy/cdrom boots and pw the bios, put chains and padlocks on the cases, which make any fowl play very conspicuous

Re:Days of programmers ARE numbered

[kin_korn_karn]

damn it, why did you have to post this after I blew all my mod points on the Janis Ian story?

Perl script to replace Slashdot Editors

[anthony_dipierro]

sub useless_hype() {
#todo
return 0;
}

if (($story=~/Microsoft/)&&(!useless_hype($story) )) {
post($story);
} else {
reject($story);
}

Re:So...Who manages the management system?

[sysjkb]

Really, you can automate handling disk full issues? What does such a program do?

To add to my previous comment, Sun (and probably everyone else) already uses dynamic optimization to reduce the chances of a disk full situation even happening.

From man fs_ufs :

fs_optim
fs_optim specifies whether the file system should try to minimize the time spent allocating blocks, or if it should attempt to minimize the space fragmentation on the disk. If the value of fs_minfree is less than 10%, then the file system defaults to optimizing for space to avoid running out of full sized blocks. If the value of fs_minfree is greater than or equal to 10%, fragmentation is unlikely to be problematical, and the file system defaults to optimizing for time.

Sincerely yours,
Jeffrey Boulier