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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div><br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:07:55 -0500 (CDT)<br>> From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l@gmail.com><br>> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org><br>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Files, Checksums, Filesystems Was: find<br>> command<br>> Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1305101700150.30401@taxa.psych.umn.edu><br>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed<br>> <br>> On Thu, 9 May 2013, Florin Iucha wrote:<br>> <br>> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:09:55AM -0500, Erik Anderson wrote:<br>> >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net> wrote:<br>> >><br>> >>> 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>> >>><br>> >>> 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.<br>> >><br>> >> Well that's a little defeatist, isn't it? :)<br>> ><br>> > No, just battle scarr?ed. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt [all <br>> > shredded].<br>> <br>> I'm done with Solaris, too. I used administered a Solaris box or two from <br>> the mid-90s until about 5 years ago. Linux is just too much easier.<br>> <br>> <br>> >> ZFS runs happily on FreeBSD (yes, this is a linux list, yadda yadda), <br>> >> and according to the vast majority of ZFS users, it's actually the <br>> >> preferred OS to run it on. Granted, FreeBSD doesn't have as complete <br>> >> hardware support as most Linux distros do, but it's *much* more <br>> >> approachable than Solaris.<br>> ><br>> > I'll give it some thought - I am interested in the end-to-end data <br>> > integrity and the regular scrubs, although due to time pressure I <br>> > abandoned the DYI for a nice Synology box.<br>> <br>> It looks like there is some progress on getting ZFS working on Linux:<br>> <br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux<br>> <br>> One of the biggest problems is incompatible licensing. The ZFS CDDL is <br>> not compatible with GPL. It seems that the problem is this part of the <br>> CDDL:<br>> <br>> "Any litigation relating to this License shall be subject to the <br>> jurisdiction of the courts located in the jurisdiction and venue specified <br>> in a notice contained within the Original Software, with the losing party <br>> responsible for costs, including, without limitation, court costs and <br>> reasonable attorneys fees and expenses."<br>> <br>> I have to say that I am glad someone is serious about data integrity <br>> issues because this limitation of our filesystems has been worrying me a <br>> little bit. I had heard of ZFS but didn't know this is its main focus. <br>> Protecting the integrity of the data should be a high priority. More:<br>> <br>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Features<br>> <br>> Mike<br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br><br>Mike have you ever used 'opendiana' I am curious about that operating system as well as 'Solaris'.<br></div> </div></body>
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