On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Gregory Youngblood <greg...@youngblood.me>wrote:
> That's just it - at least one of the cards he purchased in an effort to set > up an OpenSolaris or OpenIndiana file server came directly off the HCL, > brand/chipset/etc. The other cards were too. > > This was a gentleman that had at least 7 years working with server hardware > and probably over 15 years working with computer hardware in general, in > other words he was not a n00b. He used the HCL when selecting the hardware > he tried to use. He followed reports about specific cards with chipsets that > supposedly worked, and ultimately also tried purchasing the exact brand and > model in the HCL itself. Despite doing all the right things, he didn't end > up with a functional system, and after several days got fed up and moved on. > This is in a nutshell why I'm eagerly watching ZFS on FreeBSD get better. FreeBSD has much better support for common disk controllers, probably because they're not hoping to sell own-brand hardware to end users. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
