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without even knowing it's running on top of Illumos What's the advantage of running Linux->KVM->Illumos instead of Linux->KVM->Linux?
by moe 15y ago
without even knowing it's running on top of Illumos
What's the advantage of running Linux->KVM->Illumos instead of Linux->KVM->Linux?
- acdha 15y agoDTrace and ZFS are both great and lack competitive alternatives on Linux. For years, the horrid state of Solaris' userland made it hard to justify order-of-magnitude support increases but this lets you use the best parts without having to suffer through things like a system-destroying package updater[1] simply to get a reliable filesystem. 1. At a previous employer, we bought Sun compute nodes. Nice hardware, arrived with Solaris 10 preinstalled. Each time we got a new shipment I'd get them racked and see if the updater wouldn't render the system unbootable after the first run. Second reboot was always to the Debian installer.
- moe 15y agoWell, pretty much the same here. We ran linux on xfires until recently because we loved the hardware, but wouldn't touch solaris with a 10ft pole. I'm skeptical DTrace and ZFS can justify the risk to invest in a niche platform. Personally I'm holding out for the linux alternatives (btrfs, ceph) to mature.