> > I have a quite old machine with an AMD Athlon 900MHz with 640Mb of RAM > > serving up NFS, WebDAV locally to my house and running my webserver (Apache) > > in a Zone. For me performance is perfectly acceptable, but this isn't an > > interactive desktop. Not only is performance acceptable when I moved all > > the data (photos, etc) off the internal disk of my (PPC) Mac Mini to the > > NFSv3 accessed ZFS system things on the mac actually got faster. > > > > But surely I could afford to by a machine with 4gb of RAM after all it is > > only US$50 right ? Yes I could but why should I need to buy more hardware > > when I can use what I already have and not fill up more land file with non > > RoHS components (most of this machine, everything other than the CPU fan is > > more than 5 years old). > > GREAT point. Sun shouldn't innovate in software if it doesn't run well on > hardware that should've been thrown away years ago.
You are comparing apples with oranges here. The point is not to change software to accommodate obsolete hardware. The point is to optimize existing hardware and modern software. The money is better spent on more RAM than on another CPU/SATA HBA/whatever, in this particular use case. > I don't know ANYONE running around > claiming Solaris is the OS to beat on extremely slow hardware with extremely > minimal hardware specs. That isn't its target market and never will be. > THIS IS AN ENTERPRISE OS! Wrong. OpenSolaris is certainly not an Enterprise OS. It might become one when it is passed the torch from Solaris 10. > I don't expect the programmers at Sun or anywhere else to write their code > for hardware that's 10 years old, or stifle innovation based on that idea. > If that's the sort of project you're looking for I think you've stumbled > onto the wrong mailing list. I think you just have made a fool of yourself. :-) Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
