I have just had a disk fail on my NAS, actually it happened ages ago but I was too broke to replace it. At the same time as one being faulted, another was degraded through having too many errors. Below is my interaction with ZFS to discover the extent »
I have blogged about this before, go get it here ,it is out of beta now. OpenSolaris kernel, GNU userland (most of Ubuntu’s packages). I have mentioned before that Ian Murdock, the chap who started Debian, has joined Sun to work on Project Indiana. This »
I have blogged about Nexenta before, Solaris kernel with Ubuntu userland. It is great if you are familiar with Debian/Ubuntu and want to play with the features in the solaris kernel (DTrace and ZFS got me excited). I was complaining that the www.gnusolaris »
Exporting a ZFS filesystem via NFS is easy, you just use the command zfs set sharesmb=on POOLNAME/FSNAME In order to share via CIFS (sometimes called SMB) to windows clients, you used to have to use Samba. This is not a problem for simple setups that »
No silent data corruption because of a checksum on each block, copy on write means no fsck EVER (it does not even have one), no RAID5 write hole, add disks to the pool on the fly, put volumes there as well as filesystems and export them via iSCSI or NFS »
I love the SunOS kernel. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones all make it desirable. But OpenSolaris is a code repository, not a distribution and you have to go elsewhere if you want a free distro. Nexenta looked the most promising, but then went quiet for a while (at »