Andrew McGlashan wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 4:24 AM, Curt wrote:On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking better and better).Oh shit.?? I looked at SmartOS [1] last year, it wasn't ready for my needs then. I would be interested to know where it is at now as I may consider it too.
So far, my evaluation has mostly been on paper - been busily narrowing down options to a manageable few for evaluation - which is coming soon.
What I've concluded so far is:- open solaris based - good parentage - and open-solaris (illumos) in general seems to have reached serious viability - Joyent, the folks behind SmartOS seem pretty savvy, are using SmartOS as the core of their commercial offering, and seem to have some good traction
- fairly active community (both illumos and SmartOS)- ZFS, DTrace, Zones - a nice start (DRBD and Xen are still nice-to-haves - kind of what're keeping me on Linux)
- seems like it passes all the initial hurdles for use in production More when I've put it through some paces. Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra