On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:44:00PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:11 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:07:55PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > >> On 4/14/11, John R Pierce<pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > >>> since this is the centos list, I really didn't want to suggest this, but > >>> if I was building a 20 or 40TB or whatever storage server, I do believe > >>> I'd be strongly consider using Solaris, or one of its variants like > >>> OpenIndiana, with ZFS. > >>> > >>> ZFS was engineered from the ground up to scale to zetabytes > >> > >> I was actually considering this but then came news that Oracle was > >> killing OpenSolaris and likely to be pushing OCFS so decided I > >> probably don't want to have something come bite me a year or two down > >> the road. I'm not sure how things developed since then though. > >> > >> But based on your recommendation and Christopher Chan's, it would seem > >> like you guys don't think that long term support/updates would be an > >> issue for ZFS? > > > > ZFS and OCFS play in different spaces. And ZFS is going nowhere... if > > you want to use on an "open" OS, OpenIndiana may be a good bet, but > > you're best short-term / "mature" option would be Nexenta or Solaris > > Express. > > > > Huh? What gives Nexenta a better advantage over OpenIndiana? They are > both in the same boat. Both will have to migrate to illumos and move > away from the last OpenSolaris ON release. Oh, Nexenta has a company > backing it? Makes no different when both projects will be using the same > core image. Now, if OpenIndiana resists using illumos, then you will > have a case for Nexenta over OpenIndiana. OpenIndiana is in their what, first release? I don't think that Nexenta 3.x is based on it *yet*. Both will eventually converge. In the meantime, yes, for storage needs I'd go with Nexenta for the reasons you mentioned. :) For personal use? Maybe different factors. Nexenta the company of course will be contributing to OpenIndiana and Illumos... Ray