Sparks Architecture

Sparks Architecture

Note. this page is accurate as of April 14, 2006,and is considered the
starting point for further open discussion, revision, consensus and
finally implementation. The design discussion for this project, at this
point in time has been Sun internal only.

Overview in relation to other Open Solaris projects

The overview has been moved to the Sparks/Reno/Duckwater/Winchester Overview Page

Sparks Architecture Documents

The following is the current draft Functional Specification for the Sparks infrastructure as we have discussed it internally to date.

• Sparks Functional Specification [defined and approved in PSARC/2005/133] - pdf

nsswitch architecture changes under discussion

• nsswitch versioning

Architectural Issues to be discussed

This topic is, itself most likely incomplete.

Some of the issues we would like to discuss with the community include:

• new XbyY interfaces, both get & put
• XbyY to switch interface extensions
• switch backend interfaces
• and probably most everything else in between