On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone using SmartOS? > > It's very similar to what I was doing by hand with Ubuntu LTS, but I > feel better about the state of ZFS on SmartOS and have grown to like > the live boot approach. > > I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Not actually using it myself, but reading through the docs makes it sound interesting. However, it seems to have some drawbacks. * Based on Solaris. Ick. * Kind of a step backwards in virtualization, missing a lot of features/compatibility * Poor choice for more than a few servers, no live migration, storage migration, etc * Poor choice for workstations, stuck with Solaris, or run in a VM. But would be fun for a small office that needs a few VMs on one system. Or just fun to play with. ZFS, DTrace, Zones are all really cool, too bad most of it is still Solaris only. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
