Comments on: So long, Open Solaris! http://peawee.net/2008/04/25/so-long-open-solaris/ peawee's funky little corner of the internet Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:12:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: McPop http://peawee.net/2008/04/25/so-long-open-solaris/#comment-1046 McPop Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:27:59 +0000 http://peawee.net/2008/04/25/so-long-open-solaris/#comment-1046 I gave FreeBSD a spin to try out ZFS...after OpenSolaris wouldn't install and Nexenta wouldn't boot the livecd. This was all with a view to making a home fileserver. But after about a week I reverted to good ol' Linux, LVM and dmraid. ZFS was really nice to work with but it lacked a few features that are MUST have, the most prominent of these is the ability to grow a RAIDZ pool. Can't be done! Not looking like being implemented any time soon (if at all!) This is a ZFS killer feature, in the 'death' sence rather than the 'cool' sense. McPop. I gave FreeBSD a spin to try out ZFS…after OpenSolaris wouldn’t install and Nexenta wouldn’t boot the livecd.

This was all with a view to making a home fileserver.

But after about a week I reverted to good ol’ Linux, LVM and dmraid.

ZFS was really nice to work with but it lacked a few features that are MUST have, the most prominent of these is the ability to grow a RAIDZ pool. Can’t be done! Not looking like being implemented any time soon (if at all!)

This is a ZFS killer feature, in the ‘death’ sence rather than the ‘cool’ sense.

McPop.

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