[geeks] Solaris root backups

[Phil Stracchino]

On 7/27/21 5:41 PM, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
> Anyway, are you an Illumos/OpenSolaris developer?  Or user?

Neither, yet.  But possibly in the future, Oracle having put a bullet
through the head of any future Solaris development.

>  I would 
> LOVE to run Solaris with ZFS natively paired up with my copious free time.
> 
> As for ZFS on Linux or *BSD, I have no interest, really.  LVM+XFS or 
> Btrfs is where it's at for me on Linux.  NetBSD is interesting to me for 
> other reasons; and with OpenBSD you will have an uninspired file server. 
>   And as for Stratis, erm.

My first wife used to work for Stratus.

I am actually following with considerable interest (and supporting) the
development of bcachefs.  It has some very interesting design ideas.
I'm afraid btrfs doesn't really inspire my trust, I've heard of far too
many cases of it saying, "Oops, I irretrievably threw all your data on
the floor.  Sorry about that."


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