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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:07:55 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com>
> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Files, Checksums, Filesystems Was: find
> 	command
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> 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
> 
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Mike have you ever used 'opendiana' I am curious about that operating system as well as 'Solaris'.
 		 	   		  
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