Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-07-26 Thread James
I might be mistaken, but it looks like 3ware does have a driver, several in fact: http://www.3ware.com/support/downloadpageprod.asp?pcode=9path=Escalade9500SSeriesprodname=3ware%209500S%20Series Any comment on this? I'm thinking about picking up a server with this card, and it would be cool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still use ZFS. What does everyone thing about that? I bet it is not as mature as on OpenSolaris. mature is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:46, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still use ZFS. What

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:46:01AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: And FreeBSD in general will be built using older versions of packages than what's in OpenSolaris. Both are good OSes. If you can use FreeBSD but OpenSolaris doesn't have the driver for your hardware, go for it. While I use

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
While I use zfs with FreeBSD (FreeNAS appliance with 4x SATA 1 TByte drives) it is trailing OpenSolaris by at least a year if not longer and hence lacks many key features people pick zfs over other file systems. The performance, especially CIFS is quite lacking. Purportedly (I have never

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: mature is not the right term in this case. FreeBSD has been around much longer than opensolaris, and it's equally if not more mature. FreeBSD is probably somewhat less featureful. Because their focus is heavily on the reliability and stability

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What does everyone thing about that? I bet it is not as mature as on OpenSolaris. mature is not the right term in this case. FreeBSD has been around much longer than opensolaris, and it's equally if not more mature. Bill Joy might take

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based storage ;) -marc On 3/26/10, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 26,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 23:25, Marc Nicholas wrote: Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/27/10 11:32 AM, Svein Skogen wrote: On 26.03.2010 23:25, Marc Nicholas wrote: Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based storage ;) FreeBSD 8 or FreeBSD

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product -

[zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-25 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still use ZFS. What does everyone thing about that? I bet it is not as mature as on OpenSolaris. Does

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still use ZFS. What does