Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Christine Tran
Alan Perry wrote: Alan Perry wrote: I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do questions that I could not

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Christine Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Perry wrote: Alan Perry wrote: I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of what does

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. The open source is HUGE in my

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim wrote: Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. The open source is HUGE in my

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
Tim wrote: The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when driving a screw :) The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it works quite well for driving screws or digging through degenerate granite ;-) Need a better analogy. Here's what I use (quite often) on

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Boyd Adamson
Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim wrote: The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when driving a screw :) The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it works quite well for driving screws or digging through degenerate granite ;-) Need a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG
Hm - Based on this detail from the page: Change lever for switching between Rotation + Hammering , Neutral and Hammering only I'd hope it could still hammer... Though I'd suspect the size of nails it would hammer would be somewhat limited... ;) Nathan. Boyd Adamson wrote: Richard Elling

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
Boyd Adamson wrote: Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tim wrote: The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when driving a screw :) The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it works quite well for driving screws or digging through

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Perry
I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do questions that I could not answer (mostly because I know almost nothing about