On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <solar...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > ZFS was the sole factor in my decision to buy a Sun server with solaris this > year, to replace my netapp. In addition, I bought some dell machines and > paid for solaris on those, to keep around as backup destinations for the > production sun file server. > > I absolutely do believe ZFS is a huge selling point for sun hardware and > solaris. Especially for file servers.
Yes, as long as you're buying that OS from Oracle. :-) But don't forget that Oracle looks like killing OpenSolaris and entire community after all: there are no latest builds at genunix.org (latest is 134 and seems like that's it), Oracle stopped build OSOL after build 135 (I have no idea where this build is) and Oracle is building "Solaris Next" or something like that — I have no idea where to get that thing either. So no more free Solaris that you can use in a business, supporting by yourself, no more chance to build a reliable free storage or something like that (Nexenta is building their stuff on top of *outdated* 134 build). Latest checkout won't build OS either (I tried and it fails). So the repository might be intentionally broken, in order you not to build stuff yourself, but actually go and buy Oracle product. Also no more free security updates and no more hardware-only support. That means that community soon will shrink to zero. Oracle basically lied about Fedora/RHEL model analogy (which would be great if that would happen). I wish I am wrong, but looks to me pretty much game over, folks: Oracle appeared to be complete idiots towards the community. Same probably will happen to Java. :-( -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
