Just as a follow up. I went ahead with the original hardware purchase, it was so much cheaper than the alternatives it was hard to resist.
Anyway, OS 2008-05 installed very nicely. Although it mentions 32bit while booting, so I need to investigate that at some point. The actual hardware seems stable and fast enough so far. The CPU fan is much louder than I expected, so I'll probably swap that out since I want this box running 247 in the office and can't stand noisy machines. Anyway I'm booting from a laptop ide drive with two sata disks in a mirrored zpool. This seems to work fine although my testing has been limited due to some network problems... I really need a step-by-step 'how to' to access this box from my OSX Leopard based macbook pro. I've spent about 5 hours trying to get NFS working with minimal progress. I've tried with nwadm disabled, although the two lines I entered to turn it off seemed to miss alot of other config items, so I ended up turning it back on. The reason I did that was the dhcp was failing to get an address, or that's what it looked like, so I wanted to try static address. Anyway I found a way for using a static address with nwadm turned on. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I can now ping between the machines, they have identicle users created id=501 and groups with id=501, but OSX just refuses in anyway to connect to the NFS share, from command line with various flag, or cmd k. I'm going to clean install open solaris in the morning, maybe with the newest build 100? and try again, but I'd really appreciate some help from someone that has got this working. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
