> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > It is true there's no new build published in the > last 3 months. But you > > can't use that to assume they're killing the > community. > > Hmm, the community seems to think they're killing the > community: > > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/14/1448209 > /OpenSolaris-Governing-Board-Closing-Shop?from=rss > > > ZFS is great. It's pretty much the only reason we're > running Solaris. But I > don't have much confidence Oracle Solaris is going to > be a product I'm > going to want to run in the future. We barely put our > ZFS stuff into > production last year but quite frankly I'm already on > the lookout for > something to replace it. > > No new version of OpenSolaris (which we were about to > start migrating to). > No new update of Solaris 10. *Zero* information about > what the hell's going > on...
Presumably if you have a maintenance contract or some other formal relationship, you could get an NDA briefing. Not having been to one yet myself, I don't know what that would tell you, but presumably more than without it. Still, the silence is quite unhelpful, and the apparent lack of anyone willing to recognize that, and with the authority to do anything about it, is troubling. > ZFS will surely live on as the filesystem under the > hood in the doubtlessly > forthcoming Oracle "database appliances", and I'm > sure they'll keep selling > their NAS devices. But for home users? I doubt it. I > was about to build a > big storage box at home running OpenSolaris, I froze > that project. Oracle > is all about the money. Which I guess is why they're > succeeding and Sun > failed to the point of having to sell out to them. My > home use wasn't > exactly going to make them a profit, but on the other > hand, the philosophy > that led to my not using the product at home is a > direct cause of my lack > of desire to continue using it at work, and while > we're not exactly a huge > client we've dropped a decent penny or two in Sun's > wallet over the years. FWIW, you're not the only one that's tried to make that point! > Who knows, maybe Oracle will start to play ball > before August 16th and the > OpenSolaris Governing Board won't shut themselves > down. But I wouldn't hold > my breath. Postponement of respiration pending hypothetical actions by others is seldom an effective survival strategy. Nevertheless, the zfs on my Sun Blade 2000 currently running SXCE snv_97 (pending luactivate and reboot to switch to snv_129) is doing just fine with what is presently 3TB of redundant storage, and will eventually grow to 9TB as I populate the rest of the slots in my JBOD (8 slots; 2 x 1TB mirror for root; presently also 2 x 2TB mirror for data, but that will change to 5 x 2TB raidz + 1 2TB hot spare when I can afford four more 2TB drives). I have a spare power supply and some other odds and ends for the Sun Blade 2000, so, with fingers crossed, it will run (and heat my house :-) for quite some time to come, regardless of availability of future software updates. If not, I'm sure I have an ISO of SXCE 129 or so for x86 somewhere too, which I could put on any cheap x86 box with a PCIx slot for my SAS controller, and just import the zpools and go. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
