On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:07:55PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 4/14/11, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > > since this is the centos list, I really didn't want to suggest this, but > > if I was building a 20 or 40TB or whatever storage server, I do believe > > I'd be strongly consider using Solaris, or one of its variants like > > OpenIndiana, with ZFS. > > > > ZFS was engineered from the ground up to scale to zetabytes > > I was actually considering this but then came news that Oracle was > killing OpenSolaris and likely to be pushing OCFS so decided I > probably don't want to have something come bite me a year or two down > the road. I'm not sure how things developed since then though. > > But based on your recommendation and Christopher Chan's, it would seem > like you guys don't think that long term support/updates would be an > issue for ZFS?
ZFS and OCFS play in different spaces. And ZFS is going nowhere... if you want to use on an "open" OS, OpenIndiana may be a good bet, but you're best short-term / "mature" option would be Nexenta or Solaris Express. Ray _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
