Infrant NAS box and using their X-RAID instead.
I've gone back to solaris from an Infrant box.
1) while the Infrant cpu is sparc, its way, way, slow. a) the web IU takes 3-5 seconds per page b) any local process, rsync, UPnP, SlimServer is cpu starved 2) like a netapp, its frustrating to not have shell access 3) NFSv3 is buggy (use NFSv2) a) http://www.infrant.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=546 b) NFSv2 works, but its max filesize is 2Gig. 4) 8MB/sec writes and 15MB/sec reads isn't that fast 5) local rsync writes are 2MB/sec (use NFS instead) put solaris on your our old PPro box. It will be faster (yes!), cheaper and you can do more than one snapshot (and it doesn't kill the system) plus one gets shell access! _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
