Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

[Tom Buskey]

On 6/21/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/07, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:52 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > > So one has to ask.  What's the point?  :-)
> > ZFS?  :)
>
>   ZFS is nice, yes.  But does it offer a large enough benefit to
> justify a shift to an entirely different operating system?


For a file server, I think so.  ZFS will detect errors due to a bad bad
cable, controller, controller/disk firmware.  No other filesystem will.


>   Someone give me a reason BESIDES ZFS, which is relatively new, one
> would want to run Solaris x86 over Linux or BSD?


Dtrace.  You can run your linux binary or java application under Solaris for
debugging and optimizing.

Both of these are coming in MacOSX 10.5 and in FreeBSD.  Linux is working on
Systemtap and I've seen BTFS.

Sun's CDDL isn't compatible with the GPL in the kernel so clones are being
developed.  If the clones are good enough, there shouldn't be a reason to
switch.
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