On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:54 AM, in message
8E388B67-1D39-4095-95C5-132B02E4F63C@ifom-ieo-campus.it, Davide Cittaro davide.cittaro@ifom-ieo-campus.it wrote:
On Dec 29, 2008, at 7:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
Bill Campbell wrote:
I would go with Opensolaris.
for a dedicated production storage server, I would go with Solaris 10. unless there's some specific feature/capability you need thats only in OpenSolaris.
Totally agree. Solaris 10 is known for its stability. OpenSolaris includes some advanced capabilities that will be included into Solaris (especially on zfs and kernel side).
Solaris : OpenSolaris = CentOS : Fedora
(more or less...)
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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.
Here at the JHU libraries we manage about 1/2 PB of online data varying from images, audio, scanned documents, etc. in a ZFS instance on some massive storage. We evaluated all the iterations of ZFS on various OS's. ZFS/fuse was eliminated fairly quickly along with BSD. For the critical stuff we use Solaris on Sun H/W. For general storage it's Solaris_x86 on generic x86 H/W.
Tony Placilla aplacilla@jhu.edu Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University