Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
Boyd Adamson wrote: > Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Tim wrote: >> >>> The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when >>> driving a screw :) >>> >>> >> The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it >> works quite well for driving scr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Nathan Kroenert - Server ESG
Hm - Based on this detail from the page: Change lever for switching between "Rotation + Hammering" , "Neutral" and "Hammering only" I'd hope it could still hammer... Though I'd suspect the size of nails it would hammer would be somewhat limited... ;) Nathan. Boyd Adamson wrote: > Richard E

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Boyd Adamson
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tim wrote: >> >> The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when >> driving a screw :) >> > > The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it > works quite well for driving screws or digging through degenerate > granite ;-)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Elling
Tim wrote: > > The greatest hammer in the world will be inferior to a drill when > driving a screw :) > The greatest hammer in the world is a rotary hammer, and it works quite well for driving screws or digging through degenerate granite ;-) Need a better analogy. Here's what I use (quite often)

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim wrote: > > > Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other > > number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD > > 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. > > > > The open source is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Alan Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other > > number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD > > 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. > > > > The open source is HU

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Perry
Tim wrote: > Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other > number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD > 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. > > The open source is HUGE in my mind, you aren't tied to Solaris. > Granted, that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Tim
On 2/28/08, Christine Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Perry wrote: > > Alan Perry wrote: > > > > > I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. > > What I didn't > > > know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting > > shop. I got > > > asked a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Christine Tran
Alan Perry wrote: > Alan Perry wrote: > > > I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. > What I didn't > > know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting > shop. I got > > asked a lot of "what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do" questions that > I c

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Perry
Alan Perry wrote: > I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't > know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got > asked a lot of "what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do" questions that I could not > answer (mostly because

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. Novell NSS

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Perry
I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. What I didn't know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting shop. I got asked a lot of "what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do" questions that I could not answer (mostly because I know almost nothing about