[nylug-talk] Big filesystem recommendation - which one?

[H. G.]

On 8/21/07, jh <jhlists at hirschman.net> wrote:
>
> Brandorr wrote:
> > If you are willing to look at OpenSolaris, you can always use ZFS. ;)
> > Let me know if you want to test this out, or need more info. (ZFS also
> > supports native FS compression)..
> >
> > -Brian
> > P.S. - I'm pretty sure that ZFS hands NT file perms out of the box.
> >
>
> Linux I know, OpenSolaris I don't. I couldn't try OpenSolaris unless I
> had a Linux "fallback" - which means that my hardware and configuration
> are going to be tailored to what I know will work well under Linux from
> experience.
>
> Given that, my immediate issues with trying OpenSolaris:
>
> * Does it support the same hardware? The real curveball would be a 3ware
> controller. Google didn't produce a quick answer.
>

You may want to check out the Sun Installation Check tool.  Download and
burn the
image to a CD, slip it in and reboot; its a small Solaris based LiveCD that
will give
you a quick rundown as to whats supported and what isn't, and whether or not
supported devices are actually support _outside_ of Solaris (ie, 3rd party
drivers).

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check_sx.html

Good luck.