On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:46:01AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > And FreeBSD in general will be built using older versions of packages than > what's in OpenSolaris. > > Both are good OSes. If you can use FreeBSD but OpenSolaris doesn't have the > driver for your hardware, go for it.
While I use zfs with FreeBSD (FreeNAS appliance with 4x SATA 1 TByte drives) it is trailing OpenSolaris by at least a year if not longer and hence lacks many key features people pick zfs over other file systems. The performance, especially CIFS is quite lacking. Purportedly (I have never seen the source nor am I a developer), such crucial features are nontrivial to backport because FreeBSD doesn't practice layer separation. Inasmuch this is still true for the future we'll see once the Oracle/Sun dust settles. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
