On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, I can't speak for whatever Nexenta was up until recently, but to be > completely honest, I would not advocate using Nexenta Core Platform in > production either.
LOL :-) >> If I were you, I would apologize for this. > If people's feelings were hurt by this remark, then I'm sorry. Thanks! :-* > But I > also stand by my remarks; using a first version development release > product with no commercial support and not real software engineers > "supporting it" is nuts. BTW, it is just 134+ rebranded, essentially. But taking whole picture, there is no free Solaris around then. So what is more stable and better supported for you: FreeBSD with wobbling ZFS via kernel mapping or snv 134? > Solaris 8 was rock solid. Running an older proven release makes sense, > although you are still playing a bit fast and loose running snv127 which > IIRC had some nasty bugs in it and was never supported in any way by > Oracle. I agree on snv_127. But I don't want to run Linux/FreeBSD either. Also I do remember, we crossed fingers the same way 10 years ago, running Slackware... The bottom line is: personally I am *not* against your points and waiting when OI can finally move towards completely unstable nonproduction Illumos :-), but just... hey, don't beat people with a baseball bat. Be nice, specially because you are *leader*. We have two problems, basically: 1. People at *production*, who wants ZFS (and don't wants Nexenta or Snorcle's "up to eleven"). 2. Moving to Illumos is a must. How would you suggest to address BOTH these issues in a right way? E.g. I understand your points about all the things up to SX11, but killing #1 would be also not the best idea. I also believe that Alasdair relied on Joyent too much (probably hence entire OpenIndiana is all about), hoping they will contribute, while they are not really doing so. Therefore I think at OI we should re-think our primary goals and re-target efforts as well as still "support" of what we already done smoothly. Nexenta 4 will be probably a disaster as well: as far as I know, there will be no smooth upgrade, once it on Illumos, but a hurricane in a style "kill all and reinstall from scratch"? Or I am mistaken? Hope, NP3 user base won't be just killed, because it is not Illumos... :) -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
