Background: I spend about 10-12 hours a day sitting at a computer, and have for probably 20 years. I have written code in about a dozen languages, for processors from 4-bit up through 64 bit, and admin'ed my own *nix machine for a couple of years. I regularly build machines from parts and an assortment of corpses found in the workshop. I'm familiar with OS's and hardware from user level right down to the bare metal. But I don't do this every day, and I have never been a professional admin for more than my own machines. So I've been there with computers, not a beginner.
I want, like about 90% of the more literate home computer users to put together a zfs file server for my ever-growing home network. I'm about two months into reading posts of people who have maybe, kinda or even successfully built and run this kind of thing. The net is full of such stuff. I've thrashed through the fora here and other places. I'm willing to put in the time to graft on opensolaris as a new OS I know and use just to get to the object of a zfs file server. My issue is this. The HCL is substantially useless. There is an overwhelming amount of data there suggesting that every known motherboard/cpu/chipset/disk/adapter will run opensolaris and by extension zfs and do what I want. There is an overwhelming amount of expressed misery in other fora about would-be users who may partly get it running but not quite. There are blogs about successful setups which almost but not quite offer a list of "this works". I believe that there are many people like me out in there that would happily follow a cookbook to get a zfs server running. I don't want to enjoy opensolaris as a hobby, I want a server I can't get any other way. I think there are others. (a) how come there's not a reference design for a low power zfs file server/NAS? (b) which section of these fora do I hit to get a review of my seventeenth paper-design for the server I'm trying to put together? Sorry if this strikes the cognoscenti here as unenlightened; I've really tried to do the homework, but have been unsuccessful. Please point me to where I can find the info. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
