On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:17:05PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 09:54:00PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > A couple of years ago I retired our netapp in favor of a sun server with > > solaris & ZFS. We use it for a NFS/CIFS server. For this purpose, solaris > > & ZFS are much better functionality than the netapp... Although I'm sure > > there must be something netapp does better, I don't know what it is. > > FWIW, the FreeBSD project has both ZFS and dtrace from Solaris. I > admit to having explored neither, but [Open]Solaris being in a weird > place, it's nice to have some options to explore.
At work we have a SuperMicro box with OpenSolaris on it, and an ixSystems (ixsystems.com) box with FreeBSD on it, both serving big ZFS shares. Loving BSD and... tolerating Linux, OpenSolaris was kind of a jump for me, and is a pretty frustrating environment. That said, Real Solaris with Oracle hardware (haha) probably works more smoothly, and FreeBSD doesn't support every zfs option yet (like the integrated NFS/iSCSI sharing). FreeBSD does however support snapshots/sends/rollbacks/etc. I wish we were using it everywhere, so that we could take advantage of it. So I prefer the BSD box and I'm actually pricing out a new one, but ymmv. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
