NAS devices

[abreauj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Maybe so. We currently have 6 people in the office who use the Linux
> systems, and we will be adding 3 people in the near future, and we
> should start to max out our SCSI NFS server within a few months. We tend
> to maintain a lot of client data, but we are a relatively small shop. I
> happen to be the IT person even though I am a software engineer with no
> real system management experience. ?I think it would be easier for my
> boss to build up an existing Linux box than to buy a commercial Unix
> box, whether Solaris, HP-UX or AIX.


I was under the impression that OpenSolaris is free, and can be installed
on generic x86 hardware.  If OpenSolaris includes ZFS, then you don't
need a commercial Unix box in order to get ZFS.



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