I was a very satisfied OpenSolaris/ZFS padawan until the Shadows of the Dark Empire covered our Sun in march.
During these dark times the continuous disturbances in the Source without doubt caused my very Source-sensitive motherboard to completely give up its hope and spirit. To support the struggle against expanding Source imperialism I first and foremost have to get back hold of my ZFS data which are tied to the latest zpool and zfs version supported in the final development release 134 (i.e. zpool version 22 and zfs version 4). I would like to employ the newest AMD chipset and CPU, i.e.: Phenom II X6 1090T AMD 890FX / SB850 on the currently only board I know of with ECC memory support Asus Crosshair IV Formula At the end of april, Joe Kotran already queried these forums about OpenSolaris compatibility but no answer has been given yet and neither the HCL provides any usable information: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=477897 I strongly believe the first symptom of OS death is lacking support for even essential new hardware like CPU/chipsets from the main vendors. And although I really fell in love with Solaris and would prefer it anytime over Linux or any other Operating System I can not afford being forced into running on old hardware due to lack of any information whether compatibility with recent hardware exists or is at least being worked on. Can therefore someone please enlighten me whether the aforementioned CPU, chipset and other mobo hardware are supported by 134 or any available version of OpenSolaris or OpenSolaris based distribution and whether any other distribution than OpenSolaris itself provides support for zpool version 22 and zfs version 4 and a migration path from OpenSolaris? It's pretty hard to believe that nobody in the last 4 months since their launch was able to at least try to boot 134 or some newer builds on AMDs newest CPU and chipset to see whether there are some issues or total lack of compatibility. If compatibility is still missing, is anyone at all working on adding it and can they provide some ETA? Are any Illumos, Nexenta, Shillix or Belenix project participants involved in developing hardware support, serious testing and updating of the HCL for common hardware at least or are we all still dependent on the whims of Oracle? =Dusan -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
