Justin Vassallo wrote: > Hi Richard, > > The version on stable Solaris is v4 at best today. I definitely do not want > to go away from stable Solaris for my production environment, not least > because I want to continue my Solaris support contracts. >
Don't confuse the ZFS on-disk format version with software versions. There have been many software fixes in the past 3 years. > I will be attaching a Sun 2540FC array to these servers in the coming weeks > and I was intending to run zfs over the hardware raid. But seeing your > comment I'm inclined to go back on that. Given the huge advances in zfs > since that version, is installing latest zfs version from source an option I > should at all consider? Or am I better put discarding zfs altogether? > If I were you, I would look to Solaris 10 5/2008 before discarding. I cannot say what to recommend instead, because I do not know your requirements, but I think it is safe to say that ZFS is already much better for your data than UFS. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
