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Imo ZFS is just awesome, as many things sprung from sun/solaris. I first came in contact with it through solaris, and looking back at that stack with zfs, zone
by jordanbeiber 7y ago
Imo ZFS is just awesome, as many things sprung from sun/solaris.
I first came in contact with it through solaris, and looking back at that stack with zfs, zones & software defined networking it just seems like such a contemporary fit.
Recently I’ve looked a bit at smartos and joyents offering that kind of takes it the way I thought it would take, back in the day, pre-oracle.
Been using ZoL for years now, both for private filers but also professionally as of late for things like physical docker/container hosts.
Just rock solid!
- trollied 7y agoAgree. Just a shame that Solaris wasn't Open Sourced sooner, as if it'd grown more traction we'd be in a different world now. I think Linux kind of creeped up on them, and in the meantime Oracle got its grubby its on Sun, then embraced Linux itself. Zones are /amazing/.
- jordanbeiber 7y agoYeah, but it has taken like... forever, in a sense. It was in many ways quite the head start they had. DTrace for example, that stuff is proper. Great to see whats happening with BPF on Linux these days. I guess it speaks to the engineering efforts behind it all. Not an easy feat to integrate or bolt on. And not to mention the inertia of eco-systems of tooling on a well established platform such as Linux. Interesting times ahead and great work, my favorite community! :)
- pjmlp 7y agoOracle only got its grubby on Sun, because no one else saw any value doing a counter offer, including Google after doing their Java curved ball to Sun's licensing.