Linked by John Finigan on Mon 21st Apr 2008 19:00 UTC
When it comes to dealing with storage, Solaris 10 provides admins with more choices than any other operating system. Right out of the box, it offers two filesystems, two volume managers, an iscsi target and initiator, and, naturally, an NFS server. Add a couple of Sun packages and you have volume replication, a cluster filesystem, and a hierarchical storage manager. Trust your data to the still-in-development features found in OpenSolaris, and you can have a fibre channel target and an in-kernel CIFS server, among other things. True, some of these features can be found in any enterprise-ready UNIX OS. But Solaris 10 integrates all of them into one well-tested package. Editor's note: This is the first of our published submissions for the 2008 Article Contest.
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2005-07-06
Sorry, but 'I ran it on a VM for five minutes, and OMG it didn't crap!' doesn't tell anyone anything.
Obviously you haven't. ZFS under 32-bit systems is a well known gotcha, and it has bitten the FreeBSD people in porting, so if you don't know that you don't know about ZFS. ZFS needs cache and lots of it, and tends to grow unbounded with your workload without serious tuning, so you are going to need several gigabytes of memory to run it. Just because you run it for ten seconds in a VM and it doesn't reach those limits doesn't mean jack I'm afraid.
I just laugh at all the fan boys who are taking a still unstable and unproven filesystem and storage stack, an unfinished distribution in OpenSolaris and who think that because they've run the system for a couple of days they can run it in production for something.