> o I've got a modified Solaris miniroot with ZFS > functionality which > takes up about 60 MB (The compressed image, which > GRUB uses, is less > than 30MB). Solaris boots entirely into RAM. From > poweron to full > functionality, it takes about 45 seconds to boot on a > very modest 1GHz > Cyrix Mini ITX motherboard. > > o As Solaris runs entirely in RAM, there is no > Solaris footprint on the > attached storage. It is entirely dedicated to ZFS. > With a little > ludgery, all state can be managed from ZFS in effect > making Solaris > stateless. There should be no serious ramifications > to pulling the plug > on this device. In fact that's pretty much how this > thing is rebooted > right now. > > o As a potential example, one might consider managing > this device via a > web-based interface, perhaps not all that different > than the way you > might manage say, a Linksys router. > > Yeah I know this is silly, but it's fun. Time to get > back to my real job > -- Jim C
Silly is the opposite of such a project! I'm just wondering how so much time has passed without it becoming an explicit OpenSolaris project! A RAM-driven headless ZFS file server to compete with FreeNAS, OpenFiler, Windows Storage Server 2003 and Windows Home Server? Where do we sign up for this?!?! :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
