[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

Robert Milkowski milek@task.gda.pl
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:32:55 +0100


On 30/09/2010 21:26, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> On 9/30/2010 4:04 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> On 29/09/2010 01:22, Jeff Blaine wrote:
>>> On 9/28/2010 6:05 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/2010 5:53 PM, Patricia O'Reilly wrote:
>>>>> I'm curious, what types of problems have you encountered with
>>>>> ZFS? We are actually considering using ZFS on some of our 
>>>>> fileservers.
>>>>
>>>> Many organizations are looking to move off of Oracle Solaris due to 
>>>> the
>>>> recently ownership, development and licensing changes. Jeff Blaine can
>>>> correct me but I suspect the reasons for the switch are not technical.
>>>
>>> Precisely.
>>
>> I'm curious - did you pay for the support before or did you use a free
>> version with no support?
>
> Paid support, SPARC.

Why not to consider Solaris on x86 then? Be it HP, Dell, Oracle, ...?
For non-Oracle HW the support is 1000$ per socket iirc.

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