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When ZFS came out I tried OpenSolaris on a 48 disk machine. Regretted it immensely, that was the last sun hardware we bought Simply it didn’t fit with the hund
by iso947 6y ago
When ZFS came out I tried OpenSolaris on a 48 disk machine. Regretted it immensely, that was the last sun hardware we bought
Simply it didn’t fit with the hundreds of other linux boxes we had.
We ended up scrapping the zfs idea and bout 1000+ disks (about 2PB) worth of linux storage over the next decade, on xfs and ext4.
Had Sun’s x4500 platform worked with a Debian based linux we’d have bought that instead of supermicro. Sun lost because of their choice to exclude zfs from linux.
From what I can tell, zfs is/was great, but wasn’t good enough to change our standard OS, and since then people moved to object storage
- jjav 6y ago> When ZFS came out I tried OpenSolaris Historical context: ZFS predates OpenSolaris by quite a few years, so the above statement can't be technically true.
- iso947 6y agoYes you’re correct it was normal Solaris 10, this was about 12 years ago. On my evaluation I was comparing with a satabeast and hp320s at the time, and I said that “zfs probably outweighs the problems of running Solaris” The box was still in use in 2012, we were having issues and a “zfs upgrade” was suggested, but at that point we were adding new storage on linux.