On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:54:16PM +0100, Andrew Gabriel wrote: > Andre van Eyssen wrote: > >On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Gary Mills wrote: > > > >>As for a business case, we just had an extended and catastrophic > >>performance degradation that was the result of two ZFS bugs. If we > >>have another one like that, our director is likely to instruct us to > >>throw away all our Solaris toys and convert to Microsoft products. > > > >If you change platform every time you get two bugs in a product, you > >must cycle platforms on a pretty regular basis! > > You often find the change is towards Windows. That very rarely has the > same rules applied, so things then stick there.
There's a more general principle in operation here. Organizations do sometimes change platforms for peculiar reasons, but once they do that they're not going to do it again for a long time. That's why they disregard problems with the new platform. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
