2010-09-29, 22:39
darkscout Wrote:ZFS FTW.I get this sentiment a lot from people, but if you're using OpenSolaris as just a file server basically, I don't see what's wrong with staying behind the curve for a while until a viable OS shows up (ala Illumos) or it's cheap enough to migrate all your data to a new setup. After all, when billion-dollar companies can stick with old Linux / Unix systems like SCO Unix and mainframes (despite no support!) there's probably a bit of room to stick with OSes that are supposedly dead in the water like OpenSolaris.
Starting to look for an alternative since OS is dead.
I wouldn't have any hope of FreeBSD effectively "catching up" to the OpenSolaris ZFS implementation. A great deal of the ZFS architecture is built upon Solaris constructs that presents challenges to porting to alternative kernels ugly. Look at all the memory adjustments you need to get ZFS working well on FreeBSD, for example.
I'm going to stick with an old, moldy OpenSolaris system for my 12TB disk setup until:
1. btrfs is mature and trustworthy enough to hold all my data
2. Illumos or another OpenSolaris successor can safely run ZFS v17+
3. Drives get large and cheap enough for me to just run a single disk in RAID1