[plug] OpenSolaris, ZFS, RAID-Z Comments

[David Lloyd]

Hi There,

On 02/09/2010, at 11:55 AM, Tim wrote:

> Hey everyone
> Been doing lots of reading on the net today about RAID's, which lead
> me to RAID-Z and ZFS, which lead me to OpenSolaris.
> So I thought I'd just ask for people to chime in with their thoughts
> and experiences with ether OpenSolaris, ZFS or RAID-Z. And if you want
> to talk about how RAID-Z/ZFS compares to other RAID, that RAID I'm
> most interested in is RAID10 so don't worry about telling me how
> RAID-5 sucks. :-P

OpenSolaris' ZFS is very good however the state of 'open' Solaris under Oracle is a little, well, unclear.

DSL