Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, James Andrewartha wrote: There is a huge difference practically - OpenSolaris has no free security updates for stable releases, unlike FreeBSD. And I'm sure you don't recommend running /dev in production. If OpenSolaris was to do that, then it would be called Solaris. :-)

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-09 Thread James Andrewartha
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: Args for FreeBSD + ZFS: - Limited budget - We are familiar with managing FreeBSD. - We are familiar with tuning FreeBSD. - Licensing model Args against OpenSolaris + ZFS: - Hardware compatibility - Lack of knowledge for tuni

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > > If you think about it a little bit, you will see that there is no > > significant difference in the licensing model between FreeBSD+ZFS and > > OpenSolaris+ZFS.  It is not possible to be a "little bit pregnant". Either > > one is pregnant, or one is not. > > > > Well, Fre

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Cook
2009/12/8 "C. Bergström" > Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Bob Friesenhahn >> wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: >>> >>> Args for FreeBSD + ZFS: - Limited budget - We are familiar with managing FreeBSD. - We are famil

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-08 Thread C. Bergström
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: Args for FreeBSD + ZFS: - Limited budget - We are familiar with managing FreeBSD. - We are familiar with tuning FreeBSD. - Licensing model Args against OpenSolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-08 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: >> >> Args for FreeBSD + ZFS: >> >> - Limited budget >> - We are familiar with managing FreeBSD. >> - We are familiar with tuning FreeBSD. >> - Licensing model >> >> Args against OpenSolaris + ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: Args for FreeBSD + ZFS: - Limited budget - We are familiar with managing FreeBSD. - We are familiar with tuning FreeBSD. - Licensing model Args against OpenSolaris + ZFS: - Hardware compatibility - Lack of knowledge for tuning and associated costs

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-07 Thread Erik Trimble
Michael DeMan (OA) wrote: Actually it appears that FreeNAS is forking with planned support for both linux (we can only speculate on the preferred backing file system) and FreeBSD with ZFS as preferred backing file system. In regards to OpenSolaris advocacy for using OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-07 Thread Michael DeMan (OA)
Actually it appears that FreeNAS is forking with planned support for both linux (we can only speculate on the preferred backing file system) and FreeBSD with ZFS as preferred backing file system. In regards to OpenSolaris advocacy for using OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD, I'm all ears if anybody is b

[zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-06 Thread Gary Gendel
The only reason I thought this news would be of interest is that the discussions had some interesting comments. Basically, there is a significant outcry because zfs was going away. I saw NextentaOS and EON mentioned several times as the path to go. Seem that there is some opportunity for Open