On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:24 PM, in message
49596A48.4000104@bradbury.edu.hk, Christopher Chan christopher.chan@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
I agree in general with most every opinion. Especially Davide's comment
above. Very good analogy
Open Solaris may be your best choice. I would suggest you do pay attention to Solaris itself. It's free (as in
beer) from Sun & it works.
Except for patches unless you want to browse Sun's website regularly to download them.
You also get more hardware support on OpenSolaris and support from Sun for OpenSolaris but I suppose the latter option is probably better done with Solaris 10 + support which includes access to patch management. Unless you like the way things are done over here in Linux land which is one tool to manage them all and not one tool to install packages and another tool to install patches to packages.
Agreed.
Only the OP knows the criticality of his data & whether or not he needs support & at what level.
The root answer is that if he wants to use ZFS (which is a *good* choice) he should use some flavor of Solaris
Tony Placilla aplacilla@jhu.edu Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University