<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Florin Iucha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin@iucha.net" target="_blank">florin@iucha.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":cc">The only way this is 'automatic and transparent' is if you buy a<br>
server from Oracle with Solaris preinstalled and support paid off.<br>
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Otherwise, you'll fiddle with hardware components or virtual drivers<br>
until you get Solaris happy. Which can be a long time and an<br>
expensive process.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Well that's a little defeatist, isn't it? :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>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.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>-Erik</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br><br></div></div>