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 HUGE in my mind, you aren't tied to Solaris.
> > Granted, that is where the main development is taking place right now,
> > but if Sun were to fold up shop, or kill off solaris
> > *cough*netware*cough*, zfs isn't going anywhere, and your data should
> > be portable.
> >
> > I'm going to be blunt, and probably will rile up a few trolls if there
> > are any on this mailing list:
> > If you're talking to anyone still on netware, they're a netware
> > zealot, and nothing you can say is going to change that.
> > If they haven't found a reason to throw netware under the bus yet,
> > they aren't going to. No reasonable argument as to why ZFS is
> > superior to NSS will be heard, there will always be some caveat (ITS
> > NOT SUPPORTED BY NOVELL!!!11), as to why it's just not a good enough
> > reason to switch.
>
> Out of the Novell-types at the talk, one was a Novell "zealot" and the
> rest were just folks who make a living supporting Novell customers.
> Also, NSS was apparently been ported to Linux.
>
> alan
>
>
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