>More recently, Oracle bought Sun, and they have killed or are in the process of actively killing each and every Sun project, product, or service that ever previously existed.
The quote that has been floating around lately about Oracle is unbelievably true: "Oracle: Where Open Source goes to die." On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org>wrote: > On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Charles Jones wrote: > > > I forgot about that crazy sun box - 48 sata drives! I wonder why sun says > it has a max capacity of 48TB? Why not use drives larger than 1TB? > > They were using Enterprise SATA drives, and they had contracts in place for > large quantities of drives with very specific configurations. It takes time > to ramp up production lines to meet those kinds of quality and configuration > requirements, so they would be unable to keep up with the "bleeding edge" in > terms of capacity. > > If you wanted to take old drives with sleds and remove the sleds and put > them on newer drives, and you could find or cook up the necessary > configuration files to get the OS and ZFS to properly recognize and use > them, then you'd be completely on your own when those drives started > failing. > > > More recently, Oracle bought Sun, and they have killed or are in the > process of actively killing each and every Sun project, product, or service > that ever previously existed. > > -- > Brad Knowles <b...@shub-internet.org> > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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