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]. > 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. Cheers, florin -- Sent from my other microwave oven. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130509/e813b0e5/attachment.pgp>