On Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:19 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 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. :) Hardy userland, gcc compiled and gnu linked...hmm...I'll give Nexenta a shot after they start basing on perhaps Lucid repos. > > For personal use? Maybe different factors. > > Nexenta the company of course will be contributing to OpenIndiana and > Illumos... > Now that is news to me. I know that Garrett would be willing to spare a man IF the OpenIndiana guys start using illumos as their base for the next release...