[ILUG] [OT] any ILUGers playing with OpenSolaris?

[darkshark atnight]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Lisa Muir <34.24.34 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Ivan Griffin <ivan at skynet.ie> wrote:
>>
>> Apologies in advance for being slightly off-topic here, but it is vaguely
>> related to Linux.
>>
>> I am interested in hearing if any other ILUGers have played at all with
>> OpenSolaris, and if so, what your impressions of it are - and particularly
>> have you hit any gotcha's in using it for a long-time Linux user.
>
> Haven't touched it in quite a while, but lousy driver support has
> always been the main driver of solaris users to linux.
>
>> Having installed it on an old PowerEdge as an experiment, I can honestly say
>> the PowerEdge/OpenSolaris combo will probably replace my Netgear/Infrant
>> ReadyNAS (Debian/SPARC box) as my primary fileserver.
>
> Freenas.org is my choice for this, just for simplicity of solution and
> upgrades (change cd and reboot), but mine is a small environment which
> doesnt have performance or load issues.
>
>> I am absolutely blown away by the design, feautres and functionality of ZFS
>> - for me, it is an absolute game changer,
>
> http://scalability.org/?p=648

   The blog talks about solaris 10, not opensolaris.  They're somewhat different
   in terms of featureset and performance.

>
> Apparently you need very beefy boxes to run zfs, something to do with
> every file being compressed in the filesystem. That kind of feature
> doesn't scale too well IMHO.

     zfs has come a long way since one could make such a comment :)
      running it on laptops for instance is now quite common.

     Compression with zfs is only on when one wants it on.  Its not on
by default.

     (besides any modern desktop/laptop usually has plenty of idle
cpu, eg while me
       typing this on a laptop.. little else running on the cpu(s)).

    just a note or two, is all.

Regards,
Sean.
.
>
>> and the sooner Linux gets
>> something comparable in btrfs the better!
>
> You should take a look at GFS from RedHat.
>
> Lisa.
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