On Thu, 9 May 2013, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:09:55AM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote: >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: >> >>> The only way this is 'automatic and transparent' is if you buy a >>> server from Oracle with Solaris preinstalled and support paid off. >>> >>> Otherwise, you'll fiddle with hardware components or virtual drivers >>> until you get Solaris happy. Which can be a long time and an >>> expensive process. >> >> Well that's a little defeatist, isn't it? :) > > No, just battle scarr?ed. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt [all > shredded]. I'm done with Solaris, too. I used administered a Solaris box or two from the mid-90s until about 5 years ago. Linux is just too much easier. >> ZFS runs happily on FreeBSD (yes, this is a linux list, yadda yadda), >> and according to the vast majority of ZFS users, it's actually the >> preferred OS to run it on. Granted, FreeBSD doesn't have as complete >> hardware support as most Linux distros do, but it's *much* more >> approachable than Solaris. > > I'll give it some thought - I am interested in the end-to-end data > integrity and the regular scrubs, although due to time pressure I > abandoned the DYI for a nice Synology box. It looks like there is some progress on getting ZFS working on Linux: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux One of the biggest problems is incompatible licensing. The ZFS CDDL is not compatible with GPL. It seems that the problem is this part of the CDDL: "Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the jurisdiction and venue specified in a notice contained within the Original Software, with the losing party responsible for costs, including, without limitation, court costs and reasonable attorneys fees and expenses." I have to say that I am glad someone is serious about data integrity issues because this limitation of our filesystems has been worrying me a little bit. I had heard of ZFS but didn't know this is its main focus. Protecting the integrity of the data should be a high priority. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Features Mike