> ------------------------------ > > 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 > Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1305101700150.30401 at taxa.psych.umn.edu> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ Mike have you ever used 'opendiana' I am curious about that operating system as well as 'Solaris'. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130516/07559922/attachment.html>