Who runs Dedup anyway? The dedup code was just recently integrated into b134. b134 is just a checkout from the source repositories, every other week. Dedup has not been released into an official Solaris distro. Until then, it is in alfa stage (not even beta) and not to be trusted.
Lesson learned: do only use tech that has been officially released. Do not use beta code nor alfa code, for precious data. I will not use dedup until it has been released officially. There are lots of dedup bugs if you read in the ZFS forum part. It is like this guy who ran a large OpenSolaris zpool from within virtualbox, host: Windows XP and he didnt even shut off virtualbox disk write through behaviour! Then zfs got fooled and he lost his data. Only use safe, approved things for precious data. Not bleading edge, new, beta stuff that has just recently been checked in. Dedup does not exist on official OpenSolaris distro, until then - it is only beta code. And not to be trusted in production. The state of dedup, is worse than BTRFS, and no one would trust BTRFS. There are people loosing data on BTRFS. Does that mean BTRFS is bad? No. It only means BTRFS is not done yet. And by the way, when you say "Oracle does not like Solaris", it is not true. Larry bought Sun, praising the two key assets officially: Solaris and Java. Oracle maybe does not like OpenSolaris, but Solaris is another thing. Solaris is the prefered platform to run Oracle Database on - this was official long before Oracle bought Sun. The reference OS is Solaris. Oracle DB runs on Solaris, more than any other OS. OracleDB is most common on Solaris. Larry has invested billions of USD in Solaris (he bought Sun) and he will continue to invest more money. I fail to see how Larry does not like Solaris? He praised it officially, as the best highend Unix out there, that Linux is for lowend, and Solaris for highend. He said so, officially. Regarding if Oracle hates OpenSolaris but loves Solaris: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/opensolaris/overview/index.html Here is OpenSolaris officially on Oracle home page. I dont think Oracle hates OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris is the basis for next gen Solaris 11. OpenSolaris can not be killed, then there will be no Solaris 11. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
