On 3/25/09 2:45 PM, "Alan Cox" <[email protected]> wrote: > a best of both worlds would > work and indeed perhaps moving to GPLv2 so code can be shared).
Amen to that. As cool as it is, dtrace syntax is fugly. That is one advantage for systemtap. I've had a lot of stability problems with systemtap on non-Intel systems, though. Usual "didn't think about how that would work on POWER or ARM or Z or ..." problem. Fixable with clue bat. > As to ZFS - until the patent war is over its basically untouchable. Now > it is possible that if IBM bought Sun it might get resolved PDQ depending > upon what agreements exist back and for between NetApp and IBM ;) Exactly my point. There are a lot of things like this (like libi18n) that could get fixed in OpenSolaris if the CDDL were to quietly (or not so quietly) go away. > There are still some things Solaris does way better than Linux - certain > flush heavy I/O patterns and some complex memory management games a few > obscure apps use come out way better on Solaris. And we could finally upgrade the Solaris userspace apps to something resembling usefulness, and flush the whole IPS packaging system, and maybe get rid of RPM too...8-) (The Nexenta guys did a super job with adapting APT to Solaris.) Or not. -- db ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
