On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Of course with your (Peter) fbsd background, you are probably inured to the hardships of going without a GNU userland :-)
I don't miss much these days. And at least I have man pages instead of a HowTo with the most common options;-) Solaris was never known for "the best userland ever" but it always had interesting features making it a worthwhile candidate. Set up some zones, play with Crossbar architecture, have a well-integrated ZFS.. that's actually fun and makes up for a missing --never-need-that-anyway option. And if it becomes --well-may-be-handy, just install it. It's not that you can't do it. And Solaris is robust. I am pretty sure that Russel's client does not like a spontanuous reboot now and then just because BTRFS is still alpha but may mature soon. He also may not like Craig's Out Of Memory with rsync on ZFSonLinux. For a storage box it is quite "average usage". I searched a bit for ZFS gotchas, and, not very surprising, could not find many relevant to ZFSonLinux tuning. NFS on top of ZFS on FreeBSD seems to be tricky but it is already discussed but seems to be working. My search for similar issues with ZFSonLinux did not pick up much. Could mean two things: it isn't an issue, or not many tried it under heavy load. Solaris solves the mentioned "single point of failure" issue nicely, iSCSI is well-integrated with ZFS so a mirror over iSCSI is easy to implement. Imagine getting a bowl of soup and a fork. You could try to bend it until it may work like a spoon, or just ask for a spoon. Regards Peter