On 6/25/2010 6:49 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ben Miles<merloc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
How much of a difference is there in supporting applications in between Ubuntu
and OpenSolaris?
I was not considering Ubuntu until OpenSOlaris would not load onto my machine...
Any info would be great. I have not been able to find any sort of comparison of
ZFS on Ubuntu and OS.
Thanks.
(My current OS install troubleshoot thread -
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=488193񷌁)
If you want ZFS, then go with FreeBSD instead of Ubuntu. FreeBSD 8.1
includes ZFSv14 with patches available for ZFSv15 and ZFSv16. You'll
get a more stable, better performant system than trying to shoehorn
ZFS-FUSE into Ubuntu (we've tried with Debian, and ZFS-FUSE is good
for short-term testing, but not production use).
See a previous thread on this list (i.e. look in the archives for
May/June) for a still-in-progress port of kernel-level ZFS to Linux.
It's not ready yet, but they promise Real Soon Now!
That said, if you need ZFS right now, it's either FreeBSD or OpenSolaris
(or Solaris 10).
Two other considerations from your original message:
(1) What do you mean by "supporting applications"? Do you mean are the
same applications available on Linux and OpenSolaris? Or do you mean
that you are writing an application (or have application source) that
was targeted for OpenSolaris/Solaris, and would like to now port it to
Linux?
(2) Ubuntu is a desktop distribution. Don't be fooled by their "server"
version. It's not - it has too many idiosyncrasies and bad design
choices to be a stable server OS. Use something like Debian, SLES, or
RHEL/CentOS.
(also - have you tried installing the original 2009.06 "stable"
OpenSolaris version? It might not have the install issues you're running
into with the Dev branch, and give you something to do while you wait
for the next 2010.X stable version of OpenSolaris...)
--
Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
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