2009/6/11 Joachim Schipper <joac...@joachimschipper.nl>: > If you decide not to go with OpenBSD, you may wish to consider > OpenSolaris instead of FreeBSD, which will allow you to use ZFS and > DTrace, both of which may be useful in a PostgreSQL deployment. There > are good reasons not to use (Open)Solaris (you may consider it "not > truly free", Oracle may kill it, you may have trouble finding people > with experience, the userland utilities lack polish, etc), but at least > it does offer some useful things in exchange for the headache of running > two different OSes.
I'll offer a flipside to this. I have physical and virtual (ESX) FreeBSD machines doing all manner of apache/php/postgresql/named/snmp work. FreeBSD *does* have ZFS support but it's not nearly as mature as the support in OpenSolaris. That said, I have virtual machines with 100+ GB data stores acting as sources for ZFS pools under FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE with PostGreSQL 8.3.7 and I love it. This is a low I/O setup and I only do about 9 million inserts/updates per day but it suits my needs just fine. OT, I know, but there are my $0.02. kmw -- To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, bthe guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it.'
