NAS devices

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:11:40PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Phew ... it's really unfortunate that you have a preference for Linux as a
> NAS.  Because it's certainly not the best solution, unless you have some
> really specific linux-only application, or something like that.

Say, not having any other Solaris machines around. That might be
an issue.

> In terms of performance, reliability, speed, backups, and every
> characteristic that I can basically think of mattering in a NAS, I would say
> solaris/opensolaris/ZFS would be the better solution.

It's probably also useful to look through Chris Siebenmann's
blog on his experiences with a large ZFS installation:

http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/

-dsr-