On 11/23/09 10:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
Is there enough information available from system configuration utilities to make an automatic HCL (or unofficial HCL competitor) feasible? Someone could write an application people could run which would report their opinion on how well it works, plus the self-reported identity of all key components? (It could report uptime, too, as one very small objective rating of stability.)
IIRC, the HCL doesn't really talk about applications. We have some really flaky PCs that run Open Solaris beautifully and their uptime is measured in months (basically only new releases or long power cuts make them come down). Would I recommend them for a ZFS based server? Not a chance! But they make super reliable X-Terminals... As Richard Elling has pointed out so eloquently, a reliable storage system has to be engineered to minimize or eliminate SPoFS, and I doubt you'll ever find that on an HCL, which really serves a different purpose, IMO. Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
