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Posted Feb 11, 2008 21:26 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released by ajross
Parent article: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released

Remember that Dapper is the current Long-Term Support release of Ubuntu.  
The Solaris kernel is targeted toward stable server installations that 
aren't going to get upgraded every six months.

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Dapper

Posted Feb 11, 2008 22:48 UTC (Mon) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Yes, I think their next move is to release a version of Nexenta Core Platform derived from
Ubuntu Hardy -- the next Long Term Support release of Ubuntu.

Dapper

Posted Feb 12, 2008 6:15 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

A stable version of Ubuntu on the Solaris kernel would be great for servers.

I use Ubuntu on my desktop and laptop, but am very interested in Solaris for a NAS, due to
ZFS's checksumming and other features that safeguard data.  Having done a lot of reading on
RAID 5 and RAID 1 on Linux, I have yet to enable it because of the quite high risk of losing
data.  Read http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html and then think about whether
Linux RAID or Solaris ZFS is a better platform for your data.  

I know there are many RAID approaches on Linux including hardware RAID and fakeRAID, but I
don't think any of them are up to the level of data protection provided by NetApp or ZFS.

I know about ZFS-FUSE for Linux and may use that in future, but it's not ready for prime time
yet.

Dapper

Posted Feb 12, 2008 14:40 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Okay, so try out Nexenta, which offers exactly what you just said you wanted, and let us know
how it goes!

I use an early beta of Nexenta for a server, and it works fine, but I don't do any fancy
tricks with ZFS yet.