On Wed, October 28, 2009 11:24, Frank Middleton wrote: > However, you are certainly correct that Sun's business model isn't > aimed at retail, although one wonders about the size of the market > for robust SOHO/Home file/media servers that no one seems to be > addressing right now (well, Apple, maybe, although they are not > explicit about it and they don't offer ZFS...).
Depending on the level of "rubustness" you want, there's always things like ReadyNAS and similar products. The "problem" is that many of these units use 'embedded' processors, and (Open)Solaris does not readily run on many of them (e.g., PowerPC- and ARM-based SoCs). Though AFAIK, ReadyNAS actually runs (ran?) on SPARC (Leon), but used Linux nonetheless. Perhaps as Intel and AMD build processors more suited to embedded / light-weight systems, Solaris and ZFS may be used in more situations. There's also FreeBSD, which also has ZFS and has been scaling up its support for embedded platforms (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC) recently. Not sure of the porting progress of OpenSolaris off-hand. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
