Joe Little wrote: > On 11/2/07, MC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I consider myself an early adopter of ZFS and pushed >>> it hard on this >>> list and in real life with regards to iSCSI >>> integration, zfs >>> performance issues with latency there of, and how >>> best to use it with >>> NFS. Well, I finally get to talk more about the >>> ZFS-based product I've >>> been beta testing for quite some time. I thought this >>> was the most >>> appropriate place to make it known that NexentaStor >>> is now out, and >>> you can read more of my take at my personal post, >>> http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2007/11/coming-out-party- >>> for-commodity-storage.html >>> >>> I thought it would be in the normal opensolaris blog >>> listing, but >>> since its not showing up there, this single list >>> seems most >>> appropriate to get interested parties and feedback. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu >>> ss >>> >> Hmm so is that where all the Nexenta guys have been all this time!?!? :) >> >> I look forward to trying out what has been produced. This type of solution >> is a pleasing one for the consumer. >> >> Is there a list of the contributers and what they do? The landscape of >> Nexenta has changed and I wonder about the details. PS: the website looks >> kind of busy to the eyes :) >> >> PPS: I think the new Nexenta team is the perfect candidate for submitting to >> the community how they think the OpenSolaris branding and compatibility >> should work. Would you like a "Built with OpenSolaris" logo to use? How >> far would you (or should you) go to maintain compatibility and be certified >> as "OpenSolaris Compatible"? >> >> > > I can only speak up to my particular usage and understanding. Its > OpenSolaris-based in the sense it is based on the ON/NWS > consolidations (aka, NexentaOS or the NCP releases). Its still very > much Debian/Ubuntu like in that it has that packaging, that installer, > etc. Time will tell how compatible that is deemed to be. >
That's about right. There is a little bit of a compatibility layer for the .pkg format. For example, pkgadd is wrapped to convert a .pkg to a .deb and install the .deb. Sometimes things don't work (like the sun compiler packages) but sometimes they do. I would expect this type of thing to get better over time. Supporting .pkg seems like a plus in being OpenSolaris Compatible. There is also a bit of your own choosing for how compatible you want to be. An example is that Nexenta packs the Sun ssh build but also allows installation of the Debian/Ubuntu build of the openssh package. The Sun ssh is exactly what you expect. One thing that is difficult and not entirely dealt with is upgrading zones to stay in sync with the global zone core libraries. Of course, it seems that is a little bit of a problem for more than just Nexenta ;) ZFS/iSCSI works great out of the box and has actually allowed me to import pools that an older Solaris hosts couldn't (because of pool problems). We are running Nexenta in production on a Thumper, two x4100's, and a generic AMD x86_64 machine. I can't wait to load up the upcoming 1.0! -Tim _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
