On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:27:50PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > The "problem" is that many of these units use 'embedded' processors, and > (Open)Solaris does not readily run on many of them (e.g., PowerPC- and > ARM-based SoCs). Though AFAIK, ReadyNAS actually runs (ran?) on SPARC > (Leon), but used Linux nonetheless.
Embedded means many things these days. Is AMD's Geode an embedded? Is Intel's Atom? > Perhaps as Intel and AMD build processors more suited to embedded / > light-weight systems, Solaris and ZFS may be used in more situations. > There's also FreeBSD, which also has ZFS and has been scaling up its FreeNAS 0.7 final with zfs will be out Any Day Now. It may lag behind OpenSolaris, but it is usable. > support for embedded platforms (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC) recently. Not sure of > the porting progress of OpenSolaris off-hand. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
