Posts tagged with nexenta http://www.thattommyhall.com 2008-02-18T22:37:34+00:00 thattommyhall http://www.thattommyhall.com/2008/02/18/get-nexenta-now-if-you-want-opensolaris-kernel-and-ubuntu-userland-zfsdtrace-anyone/ 2008-02-18T22:37:34+00:00 2016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00 thattommyhall

I have blogged about this before, go get it here ,it is out of beta now. OpenSolaris kernel, GNU userland (most of Ubuntu’s packages). I have mentioned before that Ian Murdock, the chap who started Debian, has joined Sun to work on Project Indiana. This

http://www.thattommyhall.com/2007/11/04/why-i-love-zfs/ 2007-11-04T20:59:08+00:00 2016-08-29T22:29:43+01:00 thattommyhall

No silent data corruption because of a checksum on each block, copy on write means no fsck EVER (it does not even have one), no RAID5 write hole, add disks to the pool on the fly, put volumes there as well as filesystems and export them via iSCSI or NFS

http://www.thattommyhall.com/2007/12/04/get-nexenta-now/ 2007-12-04T20:16:28+00:00 2016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00 thattommyhall

I have blogged about Nexenta before, Solaris kernel with Ubuntu userland. It is great if you are familiar with Debian/Ubuntu and want to play with the features in the solaris kernel (DTrace and ZFS got me excited). I was complaining that the www.gnusolaris

http://www.thattommyhall.com/2007/11/03/how-to-get-a-solaris-kernel-and-gnu-userland/ 2007-11-03T17:43:43+00:00 2016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00 thattommyhall

I love the SunOS kernel. ZFS, Dtrace, Zones all make it desirable. But OpenSolaris is a code repository, not a distribution and you have to go elsewhere if you want a free distro. Nexenta looked the most promising, but then went quiet for a while (at