On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to get really minimalist then you could use ufs rather > than zfs. This also saves the space needed for the drivers and tools, > which isn't negligible. Tribblix again is one of the only distros to > support installation to a ufs file system, although it's been a while > since I tested it. > > I'd be interested in helping out with this, if you're motivated enough to include it on your distro. Let's talk off-list. > There's a slight difference in emphasis in the Solarish world. Because > we've been into containerization for so long, you have the model where > a larger instance runs many lightweight containers, rather than running > many standalone instances; in this world there isn't the same drive > to reduce the host footprint. So I guess it hasn't had a lot of attention. > Very true point. Maybe, in all honestly, I guess I just really miss having a good unix workstation as my daily driver. I got relocated from OI to Macintosh rather forcefully at last job and was just never terribly 'comfortable,' so to speak, since then. -j > > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.lis...@oryx.us> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 02/ 1/15 01:50 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > > > > > >> Jerry Kemp wrote: > > >> > > >>> You have taken it a lot further than I would have. > > >>> > > >>> For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10, > > >>> and due > > >>> to your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS. > > >>> > > >>> When you say "Solaris 11 install" in reference to this box, do you > mean > > >>> an > > >>> install of Sun OpenSolaris? > > >>> > > >> > > >> snv_65 is an early development build of Solaris 11 - actually more > like > > >> Solaris > > >> 10 than even the earliest Solaris 11 releases. > > >> > > >> > > > yep. Missed that part, and saw it less than 10 minutes after hitting > the > > > send button. Sun OpenSolaris Nevada build 65. > > > > > > But I still stick by my comments concerning the system RAM. If the OP > is > > > committed to this box, now is probably a great time to max out the > > memory. > > > Especially if he wants to move forward beyond OpenSolaris Nevada build > > 65. > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
