OmniOS: Illumos-based OS from OmniTI

Post by dmpk2k » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #12

patrickgzill wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is it for? My view: People who want to run ZFS for storage usage. ZFS is still better than Linux alternatives like LVM, BTRFS etc. To be picky, there is not an exact counterpart to ZFS under Linux. And with clones etc. you can set up 1 master KVM image and then clone it 10 or 100 times, saving a lot of disk space in the process (ZFS clones only use the amount of space that is different from the original). People…

You've explained who Solaris is for, but if you want Solaris why would you want to run a fork of a fork of Solaris? It's still not clear what value this adds relative to Illumos .

illumos is free and (most importantly) open source. Running a closed OS and binaries on a production server isn't the most foolish idea I've heard, but it's in the running.

Post by dmpk2k » Sun, Apr 15, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

patrickgzill wrote: post #9

petedoyle wrote: post #5

I gotta say, ZFS+KVM sure seems like an awesome combo. Any ideas how this is different than SmartOS?

The SmartOS ISO I downloaded, did not have an installer to help you install the OS to disk. This one does, according to release notes. Looks like they have tweaked some of the libraries and they provide both 32 and 64bit versions of Python also (this can be a pain to build sometimes as the configure tools don't always pull in the right libs, so you end up with mixed 32 and 64bit objects or other weirdness). Also, the…

Just to be clear to any readers: SmartOS is not meant to be installed on disk, ergo no installer.

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