I've been using native ZFS on Linux <http://zfsonlinux.org/> without issue. They have packages for most major distributions as well. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Michael Greenly http://logic-refinery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130517/ce7c8b4a/attachment.html>