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UEFI support in bhyve suggests that we can now run a Solaris guest in a FreeBSD bhyve. This is a big deal for rsync.net, since our ZFS send/receive feature onl

by rsync 10y ago

UEFI support in bhyve suggests that we can now run a Solaris guest in a FreeBSD bhyve. This is a big deal for rsync.net, since our ZFS send/receive feature only works with other FreeBSD/FreeNAS/TrueNAS clients and not with Solaris clients that have a different ZFS version. We've been waiting a while for this and can't wait to offer ZFS send/receive to Solaris customers.

jclulow 10y ago
Would this service be more expensive to cover the Solaris license required?
- SwellJoe 10y ago
  Wouldn't an IllumOS distro be compatible?
  - mioelnir 10y ago
    IllumOS distros use OpenZFS as well. Unless there is a new feature flag that has not been integrated yet, FreeBSD should be able to receive from them. rsync is therefor most likely talking about commercial Solaris with zpool versions beyond 28.
    - SwellJoe 10y ago
      Ah, I did not know that; I assumed IllumOS had the same ZFS as Solaris since they share a common ancestor and ZFS was in Solaris when it became OpenSolaris.
    - rsync 10y ago
      "rsync is therefor most likely talking about commercial Solaris with zpool versions beyond 28." Yes, that is correct.
abtinf 10y ago
Offtopic: I recently found rsync.net and it is easily one of the worst landing pages I've ever experienced that wasn't due to advertising. It was so bad that I didn't bother to read any further about the service. Seriously, who thought it would be a good idea to break the back button simply as a result of scrolling? As if though paginated scrolling wasn't bad enough on its own.
- dominotw 10y ago
  i went to that site after reading your comment thinking how bad it could be. You are right, that has to be one of the poorly designed website i've ever been to.
- rsync 10y ago
  Sorry, sorry, sorry. We tried to do a nice, modern, enterprisey website that also worked on mobile and we failed. I am reverting a lot of it back to very simple "mother fucking website" design. Again, sorry. We should have known better. This should be useful, informative, and no scroll jumping javascript mumbo-jumbo: http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html

by rsync 10y ago

jclulow 10y ago

Would this service be more expensive to cover the Solaris license required?

SwellJoe 10y ago
Wouldn't an IllumOS distro be compatible?
- mioelnir 10y ago
  IllumOS distros use OpenZFS as well. Unless there is a new feature flag that has not been integrated yet, FreeBSD should be able to receive from them. rsync is therefor most likely talking about commercial Solaris with zpool versions beyond 28.
  - SwellJoe 10y ago
    Ah, I did not know that; I assumed IllumOS had the same ZFS as Solaris since they share a common ancestor and ZFS was in Solaris when it became OpenSolaris.
  - rsync 10y ago
    "rsync is therefor most likely talking about commercial Solaris with zpool versions beyond 28." Yes, that is correct.

abtinf 10y ago

Offtopic: I recently found rsync.net and it is easily one of the worst landing pages I've ever experienced that wasn't due to advertising. It was so bad that I didn't bother to read any further about the service. Seriously, who thought it would be a good idea to break the back button simply as a result of scrolling? As if though paginated scrolling wasn't bad enough on its own.

dominotw 10y ago
i went to that site after reading your comment thinking how bad it could be. You are right, that has to be one of the poorly designed website i've ever been to.
rsync 10y ago
Sorry, sorry, sorry. We tried to do a nice, modern, enterprisey website that also worked on mobile and we failed. I am reverting a lot of it back to very simple "mother fucking website" design. Again, sorry. We should have known better. This should be useful, informative, and no scroll jumping javascript mumbo-jumbo: http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html http://www.rsync.net/products/zfsintro.html