[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Alois Hammer]

Oh, so there /is/ an alternative?  Will BlastWave play nicely with
otherwise-unmodified Solaris SPARC 9/10?  'Cos otherwise I can't use it.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:26:12 -0500 (CDT), "Michael Parson"
<mparson at bl.org> said:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Alois Hammer wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:37:34 -0400, "Joshua Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >> I'd go for Solaris.  Actually, I did go with Solaris, although I
> >> certainly don't have 2TB yet.
> >
> > I've been toying with the idea of OpenSolaris or Nexenta or something,
> > but a) Linux and BSD are both considerably more performant, especially
> > for filesystems (clearly an important consideration for a NAS device)
> > and b) using anything other than Sun Solaris 10 x86 isn't going to get
> > me that tasty Solaris experience to go on my resume.  And, honestly?  I
> > can't stand Sun Solaris.  The userland tools are terrible, and getting
> > good GNU tools on seems to be an exercise in hair-pulling, cursing, and
> > wondering why stuff doesn't get updated for months or longer.  (Or has
> > someone produced an alternative to SunFreeware?)
> 
> I gave up on SunFreeware a while back and started using Blastwave.
> 
> -- 
> Michael Parson
> mparson at bl.org
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