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DapperDapperPosted Feb 12, 2008 6:15 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)In reply to: Dapper by rfunk Parent article: Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 released
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.
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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.
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