Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-20 Thread Chris Forgeron
Original Message- From: Frank Van Damme Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 6:25 AM >Op 20-05-11 01:17, Chris Forgeron schreef: >> I ended up switching back to FreeBSD after using Solaris for some time >> because I was getting tired of weird pool corruptions and the like. > >Did you ever manage t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-20 Thread Frank Van Damme
Op 20-05-11 01:17, Chris Forgeron schreef: > I ended up switching back to FreeBSD after using Solaris for some time > because I was getting tired of weird pool corruptions and the like. Did you ever manage to recover the data you blogged about on Sunday, February 6, 2011? -- No part of this cop

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Forgeron
>-Original Message- >From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org >[mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kraus > >Over the past few months I have seen mention of FreeBSD a couple time in > regards to ZFS. My question is how stable (reliable) is ZFS on this platf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Garrett D'Amore
We might have a better change of diagnosing your problem if we had a copy of your panic message buffer. Have you considered OpenIndiana and illumos as an option, or even NexentaStor if you are just looking for a storage appliance (though my guess is that you need more general purpose compute ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: > P.S. If anyone here has a suggestion as to how to get Solaris to load > I would love to hear it. I even tried disabling multi-cores (which > makes the CPUs look like dual core instead of quad) with no change. I > have not been able to get serial

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >    Over the past few months I have seen mention of FreeBSD a couple > time in regards to ZFS. My question is how stable (reliable) is ZFS on > this platform ? ZFSv15, as shipped with FreeBSD 8.3, is rock stable in our uses. We have two servers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread a . smith
Hi, I am using FreeBSD 8.2 in production with ZFS. Although I have had one issue with it in the past but I would recommend it and I consider it production ready. That said if you can wait for FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.0 to come out (a few months away) you will get a better system as these will i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 18 May 2011, Paul Kraus wrote: Over the past few months I have seen mention of FreeBSD a couple time in regards to ZFS. My question is how stable (reliable) is ZFS on this platform ? This would be a very excellent question to ask on the related FreeBSD mailing list (freebsd...@free

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >Over the past few months I have seen mention of FreeBSD a couple > time in regards to ZFS. My question is how stable (reliable) is ZFS on > this platform ? > >This is for a home server and the reason I am asking is that about > a year ag