Hi all,
I fully understand that within a cost effective point of view,
developing the fishworks for a reduced set of hardware makes , alot, of
sense.
However, i think that Sun/Oracle would increase their user base if they
make availabe a Fishwork framework certified only for a reduced set of
hardware, ie :
* it needs Western Digital HDD firmware version x.y.z
* it needs a SAS/SATA controller from a specific brand, model and
firmare ( LSI SAS1068E )
* if SSD's are used they need to be from vendor X with firmware Y
* the system motherboard chipset needs to be from vendor X or Y and
not from Z
Within this possible landscape i'm pretty sure that alot more customers
would pay for the Fishworks stack and support, given the fact that not
all customers "need" aKa can afford, the Unified Storage platform from Sun.
Anyway..Fishworks it's an awesome product! Congratulations for the
extreme good job.
Regards,
Bruno
Adam Leventhal wrote:
With that said I'm concerned that there appears to be a fork between
the opensource version of ZFS and ZFS that is part of the Sun/Oracle
FishWorks 7nnn series appliances. I understand (implicitly) that Sun
(/Oracle) as a commercial concern, is free to choose their own
priorities in terms of how they use their own IP (Intellectual
Property) - in this case, the source for the ZFS filesystem.
Hey Al,
I'm unaware of specific plans for management either at Sun or at
Oracle, but from an engineering perspective suffice it to say that it
is simpler and therefore more cost effective to develop for a single,
unified code base, to amortize the cost of testing those
modifications, and to leverage the enthusiastic ZFS community to
assist with the development and testing of ZFS.
Again, this isn't official policy, just the simple facts on the ground
from engineering.
I'm not sure what would lead you to believe that there is fork between
the open source / OpenSolaris ZFS and what we have in Fishworks.
Indeed, we've made efforts to make sure there is a single ZFS for the
reason stated above. Any differences that exist are quickly migrated
to ON as you can see from the consistent work of Eric Schrock.
Adam
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