> I've also started conversations with Pogo about offering an OpenIndiana > based workstation, which might be another option if you prefer more of a > general purpose solution. > > - Garrett
Just to highlight a point that seems often lost here - not everyone uses Solaris/ZFS as a "file storage appliance"/"home NAS and workstation"/"workstation". Sometimes, people want to run applications on the machine too. :) ZFS became such a focus and driver for Solaris that sometimes it feels like the tail is wagging the dog. (Of course I'm writing this to the ZFS list, so...) I use ZFS for fileservers, sure. The primary application though is an in-house database using ZFS to tie together 120TB worth of JBODs and 2TB Constellations via LSI HBAs to present filesystems to a bunch of processes on the box doing intensive data analysis. ZFS is great, ZFS is good, indeed, ZFS is one of the drivers for why this is using Solaris and not CentOS... but it matters that Solaris be a decent all-round OS, not a tuned fileserver appliance. Sometimes I'm left wondering if anyone uses the non-Oracle versions for anything but file storage... ? -bacon _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
