On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jason S <j.sin...@shaw.ca> wrote: > now you have brought up another question :) I had always assumed that i > would just used open solaris for this file server build, as i had not > actually done any research in regards to other operatin systems that support > ZFS. Does anyone have any advice as to wether i should be considering > FreeBSD instead of Open Solaris? Both operating systems are somewhat foriegn > to me as i come from the windows domain with a little bit of linux > experience as well. > > If you want access to the latest and greatest ZFS features as soon as they are available, you'll need to use OpenSolaris (currently at ZFSv22 or newer).
If you don't mind waiting up to a year for new ZFS features, you can use FreeBSD (currently at ZFSv13 in 7.3 and 8.0). Hardware support for enterprise server gear may be better in OSol. Hardware support for general server gear should be about the same. Hardware support for desktop gear may be better in FreeBSD. Each has fancy software features that the other doesn't (GEOM, HAST, IPFW/PF, Jails, etc in FreeBSD; Zones, Crossbow, whatever that fancy admin framework is called, integrated iSCSI, integrated CIFS, etc in OSol). I'm biased toward FreeBSD, but that's because I've never used OSol. Anything is better than Linux. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com
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