[plug] OpenSolaris, ZFS, RAID-Z Comments [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:09:11PM +0930, David Lloyd wrote: 

    >> 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.

OpenSolaris is dead: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/08/19/the-liberation-of-opensolaris/

   -Alex

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