Comment Re:A view from the inside... (Score 1) 234
/me wonders how long before someone on opensolaris-discuss posts this in a thread, leading to another flamewar and a new round of speculations on the nature of OpenSolaris
Comment Re:Uhhh... (Score 3, Informative) 234
Though a fork (in the sense of OpenBSD/FreeBSD) is not possible, a fork in the sense of Linus's tree, and Alan Cox's tree is possible. The Nexenta project itself already maintains such a tree (nexenta-gate) for the Nexenta and derivative distributions.
In short, though Oracle develops a major part of the kernel, it's open source nature still allows for multiple paths the community can take. The healthy Nexenta community is a testament to that.
We do have some plans for OpenSolaris in the near future. If you're attending DebConf in the first week of August, look me up (and my talk).
Comment Re:His equivalent of TV is publishing papers (Score 1) 177
This story reminded me of the excellent Onion piece on Bush Jr.'s work in fermilab.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-finds-error-in-fermilab-calculations,1463/
Comment Re:I am a big critic of science (Score 1) 892
I's be interested in knowing your criticism of science. As far as I've looked it's a perfect system of exploring the universe.
(perhaps you meant critical of pseudoscience, but that isnt really science.)
Comment Re:But...science is faith too! (Score 2, Insightful) 892
Science is not faith! Science is a methodology leading to statements that can be proven or disproven. Faith (as in religious faith) is "Here's some truths".
interpreting someone else's work by using my common experience.
Yeah. Except that's all you can do with religion, as opposed to science.
To call science faith is disingenuous at best, and blatantly dishonent at worst..
Comment Re:ZFS (Score 1) 609
Nexenta is FOSS, and provides upsates.
There's a derivative targeted as a storage appliance.
http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/Tour
IAA Nexenta dev.
Comment Re:ZFS (Score 1) 609
http://www.nexentastor.org/projects/site/wiki/Tour
NexentaStor is built on Nexenta specifically as a storage appliance. You can configure various ZFSsy things via the browser.
(IAA Nexenta Dev)
Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? 609
i_ate_god writes "I download a lot of 720/1080p videos, and I also produce a lot of raw uncompressed video. I have run out of slots to put in hard drives across two computers. I need (read: want) access to my files at all times (over a network is fine), especially since I maintain a library of what I've got on the TV computer. I don't want to have swappable USB drives, I want all hard drives available all the time on my network. I'm assuming that, since it's on a network, I won't need 16,000 RPM drives and thus I'm hoping a solution exists that can be moderately quiet and/or hidden away somewhere and still keep somewhat cool. So Slashdot, what have you done?"
Comment Re:Only relevant (Score 1) 259
I hate all these whitespace-removed code files.
To see it cleanly.. use
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/jsexamples/JSTidy.html
"Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era 137
miller60 writes "In 2010 the volume of digital information created and duplicated in a year will reach 1.2 zettabytes, according to new data from IDC and EMC. The annual Digital Universe report is an effort to visualize the enormous amount of data being generated by our increasingly digital lives. The report's big numbers — a zettabyte is roughly a million petabytes — pose interesting questions about how the IT community will store and manage this firehose of data. Perhaps the biggest challenge isn't how much data we're creating — it's all the copies of it. Seventy-five percent of all the data in the Digital Universe is a copy, according to IDC. See additional analysis from TG Daily, The Guardian, and Search Storage."
Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? 297
Annirak writes "With the bottom dropping out of the magnetic disk market and SSD prices still over $3/GB, I want to know if there is a way to to get the best of both worlds. Ideally, a caching algorithm would store frequently used sectors, or sectors used during boot or application launches (hot sectors), to the SSD. Adaptec has a firmware implementation of this concept, called MaxIQ, but this is only for use on their RAID controllers and only works with their special, even more expensive, SSD. Silverstone recently released a device which does this for a single disk, but it is limited: it caches the first part of the magnetic disk, up to the size of the SSD, rather than caching frequently used sectors. The FS-Cache implementation in recent Linux kernels seems to be primarily intended for use in NFS and AFS, without much provision for speeding up local filesystems. Is there a way to use an SSD to act as a hot sector cache for a magnetic disk under Linux?"
Comment Re:Or get inline deduplication (Score 1) 186
Hardware compatibility is pretty good. Really. All decent brands (storage controller/NICs) support opensolaris. Doubtful future part is FUD. Oracle made it clear OpenSolaris development, community functions will continue as is. The security patches costing $$ is not for opensolaris, but enterprise Solaris. Encryption is late.. big deal.. some things are set to low priority over others. Dedup is present, and works very well.
If it's a storage box you're looking at.. what's really important? An in-kernel, established, and widely-deployed filesystem like ZFS (without support for android phones), or a new, user-space dedup filesystem, nascent and not in production (but it can pair with your android phone!).
~Anil
Comment Re:Or get inline deduplication (Score 1) 186
Grr.. meant inline/kernel dedup.
Comment Or get inline deduplication (Score 1) 186
with NexentaStor CE, which is based on OpenSolaris b134. It's free.. and has an excellent Storage WebUI.
For a detailed explanation of OpenSolaris dedup see this blog entry.
~Anil
Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup 186
tazzbit writes "The storage vendors have been crowing about data deduplication technology for some time now, but a new open source project, Opendedup, brings it to Linux and its hypervisors — KVM, Xen and VMware. The new deduplication-based file system called SDFS (GPL v2) is scalable to eight petabytes of capacity with 256 storage engines, which can each store up to 32TB of deduplicated data. Each volume can be up to 8 exabytes and the number of files is limited by the underlying file system. Opendedup runs in user space, making it platform independent, easier to scale and cluster, and it can integrate with other user space services like Amazon S3."
