ZFS (was Ubuntu first time)

[Jamon Camisso]

On 1/10/2012 2:05 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Thanks for pointing this out and I must apologize if I offended any
> other Debian users, especially being a Debian user myself.
> I recognize my previous comments on Debianites were prejudicious and I
> too fell into the passionate trap, but it really annoys me when people
> put other stuff down with a myopic view, and this I have found very
> typical of many a Debian folk, nevertheless it's unfair to judge all
> Debian users.
> 
>> I for one think everyone should give OpenIndiana a shot for a week and
>> forget about Linux and FreeBSD zealotry. You get ZFS, which when used
> 
> Looks very interesting indeed, will give a shot later in the year! I'm
> not a big fan of ZFS though.

Now that I find curious. Is this based on experience using the FreeBSD
port? That lags behind Solaris/OpenIndiana by a fair number of releases.
For example, I don't think the current FreeBSD version has built in
deduplication, whereas that has been available for quite some time now
using a Solaris based (Illumos kernel) version.

> Perhaps, this supports my basic underlying argument in this thread and
> that is to aggregate, not segregate.

If you've got Apaches falling over under load, I'd segregate the
front-end functionality and stick an nGinx or Varnish in front of your
backend servers to handle the load :P

Sidenote: I think you might find containers in Solaris, or LXC which is
progressing quite rapidly in Linux, are very well suited to the variety
and separation of application stacks that you outlined in a previous
message.

Cheers, Jamon
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