On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2013, Paul graf wrote: > >> Mike have you ever used 'opendiana' I am curious about that operating >> system as well as 'Solaris'. > > > No. In fact, I hadn't even heard of it. Maybe that's because I've been > using Linux instead of Solaris for several years and really not thinking > about going back. OpenIndiana is the rebirth of OpenSolaris after Oracle bought Sun. I use it for tinkering (I work in a Solaris shop) but I've never used it for any real production work. Unless you NEED Solaris for some reason (dtrace has been previously discussed) there's little reason to switch from linux. ZFS is readily available in Debian, just install the zfs-fuse package and you can tinker with it. I prefer ZFS over mdraid/LVM because it seems to be more robust and much easier to manage. The downside, of course, is that it's closed source courtesy of Oracle so you have to assess your priorities. I run ZFS on my linux virtualization server and I think it's awesome, of course YMMV. I think it ROCKS that in the technology age we live in, is how easy it is to spin up a test machine and tinker. So, if you're thinking of trying something new... well, go for it! Brian