Your point is well taken, Frank, and I agree - there has to be some serious design work for reliability. My background includes both hardware design for reliability and field service engineering support, so the issues are not at all foreign to me. Nor are the limits of something like a volunteer reporting mechanism like the HCL.
One reason for the existence of this forum is the advocacy of opensolaris and presumably its expansion into the computing world. While many of the people who post here are undoubtedly working professionals in the solaris/opensolaris and *nix worlds, the number is limited. But there is a much larger number of people who are fully capable of building and setting up opensolaris systems who would love to do so given the promise of zfs as an application. They don't (yet) love the OS, they want the tool for other things. They might well come to love the OS if they got the tool. The mystery (as viewed by a beginner/outsider) involved in getting a small, affordable, usable and modestly reliable data storage system set up is preventing the inclusion of a whole lot of prospective converts. Nexenta has noted this, and is presumably making money solving this issue for people. Look what happened to the PC world when DIY hardware/OS setups happened. So I think that making reference designs available in some way is a Good Thing for the opensolaris community to prosper. But what do I know? 8-) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
