>>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:54 AM, in message <8E388B67-1D39-4095-95C5-132B02E4F63C at ifom-ieo-campus.it>, Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro at 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...) > > d 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 at jhu.edu> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University