On 03/19/11 12:17 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 18/03/11 5:56 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
We've been running Solaris 10 for the past couple of years, primarily to
leverage zfs to provide storage for about 40,000 faculty, staff, and
students ... and at this point want to start reevaluating our best
Newer versions of FreeBSD have newer ZFS code.
That said, ZFS on FreeBSD is kind of a 2nd class citizen still. FreeBSD
still gives equal (or higher) priority to ufs, and so some of the
changes in Solaris and derivatives (illumos) to make certain things like
NFS, CIFS, and COMSTAR/iSCSI work
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:26:37PM -0700, Michael DeMan wrote:
ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3.
ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardware.
In regards to OpenSolaris and Indiana - can somebody clarify the relationship
there? It was clear with
Nexenta are a great company (I'm no way affiliated with them btw), if for no
other reason being willing to invest in Illumos and by that OpenIndiana and
NCP (for which they charge nothing). If you need a large enterprise
commercially backed storage server system, NextentaStor is the answer.
If
Thats not quite right, Illumos is open source continuation of ONNV, which
is the core foundation, however it doesn't include other consolidation that
made up OpenSolaris.
OpenIndiana does, it takes all those consolidations and produces a working
OS you can install. Of course the biggest and most
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:22:01PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
Newer versions of FreeBSD have newer ZFS code.
Yes, we are at v28 at this point (the lastest open-source version).
That said, ZFS on FreeBSD is kind of a 2nd class citizen still. [...]
That's actually not true. There are more
