Chris's Wiki :: blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits?atomcommentsDWiki2016-03-28T07:22:51ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits.By Kevin Bowling on /blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimitstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits:a76a4eec30bc4d2699f318e8873fc8aec8538bbdKevin Bowling<div class="wikitext"><p>This is amusing because it seems like your main beef is Intel drivers, which suck on Linux and FreeBSD too thanks to systemic problems inside Intel. Buy Chelsio cards if you want a better time on Illumos and FreeBSD. I'd recommend the same or SolarFlare on Linux.</p>
</div>2016-03-28T07:22:51ZBy -dsr- on /blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimitstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits:a91959b433e0c78cbce89e29e2fc3bb6c36f5aa9-dsr-https://blog.randomstring.org<div class="wikitext"><p>I've been wondering if you were planning on taking a spare fileserver and installing a Linux with zfsonlinux support, then testing that as a replacement. Presumably you could observe issues now and report them upstream well before you actually had to commit to changing over as a result of dead hardware or other obsolescence.</p>
<p>That reminds me -- do you have time cohorts of machines in service? That is, if you had a need for twenty fileservers, do you buy 24 machines in two batches of 12 (or three of 8), so that you have less risk of multiple simultaneous failures, or do you buy as many as you have budget for immediately and hope that doesn't happen?</p>
</div>2016-03-27T11:39:03ZBy Alan on /blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimitstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits:f8af5db6232ed3723f52c76066816b701ac7ffb0Alan<div class="wikitext"><p>Nvidia open source drivers aren't a great example. W.r.t to the people that do pay for Linux (or directly employ developers, like Google), issues like Chris' are more likely to be a problem for them.</p>
</div>2016-03-27T09:45:10ZBy Anon on /blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimitstag:CSpace:blog/solaris/IllumosSupportLimits:5a9b0df78e4ad38200b4ef31f69a0dbe65a804adAnon<div class="wikitext"><p>This type of issue can definitely happen on Linux too - there are cases where laptop issues go unresolved (look at NVIDIA open source drivers) because the people with the problem aren't also the people who can fix the problem and those who might be able to are overcommitted already. Out of interested did you ever have to pay Sun for Solaris licenses or support back in the day?</p>
<p>This is the problem with not having deep enough pockets and not having the magical skills to fix it yourself; you can't put an appropriate incentive in front of people to solve the issue for you and you're not in a position to fix it yourself (which says a lot about the probability of self fixing open source if you happen to be working for a Computer Science department).</p>
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