Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 3/21/2011 5:44 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: We do have support for running your own code using our API. Its just that we can't reasonably be expected to support people who want do things like... oh, "zpool import -f" (note the -f). Or editing local configuration files that are also managed b

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 3/21/2011 2:59 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: I *hate* talking about unreleased product schedules :). but I think you can expect a beta with a month or two, perhaps less. We've already got an alpha that we've handed out in limited quantities. Actually, I read about that alpha; one of my cow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 3/18/2011 6:32 PM, David Magda wrote: Oracle has said that they "will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source- licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris operating system." http://unixconsole.blogspot.com/2010/08/internal-oracle-memo-leaked-on-solaris.ht

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-21 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 3/18/2011 3:15 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: a) Nexenta Core Platform is a bare-bones OS. No GUI, in other words (no X11.) It might well suit you. Indeed :), my servers are headless (well, as headless as you can get on x86 hardware 8-/, they do have an ipmi remote console that still needs to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-20 Thread Fred Liu
Probably, we need place a tag before zfs -- Opensource-ZFS or Oracle-ZFS after Solaris11 release. If it is true, these two ZFSes will definitely evolve into different directions. BTW, Did Oracle unveil the actual release date? We are also at the cross road... Thanks. Fred > -Original Mess

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-19 Thread Deano
; zfs-disc...@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10 On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:26:37PM -0700, Michael DeMan wrote: > ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3. > > ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardwa

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-19 Thread Deano
Nexenta are a great company (I'm no way affiliated with them btw), if for no other reason being willing to invest in Illumos and by that OpenIndiana and NCP (for which they charge nothing). If you need a large enterprise commercially backed storage server system, NextentaStor is the answer. If you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:26:37PM -0700, Michael DeMan wrote: > ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3. > > ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardware. > > In regards to OpenSolaris and Indiana - can somebody clarify the relationship > there? It was clear with O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-18 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> I think we all feel the same pain with Oracle's purchase of Sun. > > FreeBSD that has commercial support for ZFS maybe? Fbsd currently has a very old zpool version, not suitable for running with SLOGs, since if you lose it, you may lose the pool, which isn't very amusing... Vennlige hilsener