On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Wayne Johnson wrote: > >> I'm trying to talk our Admins into installing Solaris 10 on one of >> our >> systems using LVM. > > Just curious: Why do you want to use Solaris? I'm just wondering > because > I just stopped using it after about 15 years and I'm thinking I'm > better > off now. Everything around me was shifting toward GNU/Linux, so > that's > the direction I took. Now I have some Linux distro on almost every > computer I use (including supercomputers at the U), with Ubuntu on the > desktop (and XP still in Virtual Box on Ubuntu). > > Mike I can think of all sorts of reasons for using Solaris, but I'm struggling to think of a benefit to installing Solaris on LVM, assuming it's even possible. LVM is the Linux Volume Manager. Solaris isn't Linux. You can use the Solaris Volume Manager ala http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4520/roadmap-10?a=view ZFS and VxFS are popular filesystem choices as well. Thanks, Josh Paetzel