...There was a post just this afternoon stating the opensolaris update track would be back to following sxce with b91 so I haven't a clue what you're talking about.
As for the features/support they're looking for, if they wanted enterprise infallible storage, a thumper was the wrong choice day 1. I love the platform, but its nowhere near the league of a filer, or universe of a usp/sym. On 6/12/08, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I guess I find the "difference" between b90 and opensolaris trivial >> given we're supposed to be getting constant updates following the sxce >> builds. > > But the supported version of OpenSolaris will not be on the same > schedule as sxce. Opensolaris 2008.05 is based on snv_86. The > supported version will only have bug fixes until 2008.11. That is, it > follows much more of fthe same type of schedule that sxde did. > > Additionally, OpenSolaris has completely redone the installation and > packaging bits. When you are running a bunch of servers with > aggregate storage capacity of over 100 TB you are probably doing > something that is rather important to the company that shelled out > well over $100,000 for the hardware. In most (not all) environments > that I have worked in this says that you don't want to be relying too > heavily on 1.0 software[1] or external web services[2] that the > maintainer has not shown a track record[3] of maintaining in a way > that meets typical enterprise-level requirements. > > > 1. The non-live CD installer has not even made it into the unstable > Mercurial repository. The pkg and beadm commands and associated > libraries have less than a month of existence in anything that any > vendor is claiming to support. > 2. AFAIK, pkg.sun.com does not serve packages yet. > pkg.opensolaris.org serves up packages from snv_90 by default even > though snv_86 is the variant that is supposedly supported. > 3. There were numerous complaints of repeated timeouts when the snv_90 > packages were released resulting in having to restart the upgrade from > the start. > > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
