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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by bcantrill on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:59PM (#11818574)
Even when commercially misguided, Sun always had terrific engineering talent -- and my farewell to the company captures some of that.[1] In terms of why did the company fail, the short answer is probably that SPARC was disrupted by x86, and by the time the company figured that out, it was too late to recover.[2]

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/

[2] Longer answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by halayli on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:32PM (#11818798)
I've always been very impressed by Sun's talent, the team was . And thank you for dtrace! :) If only Linux community / leaders would be less arrogant and adopt technologies from Solaris/BSD that are order of magnitude better (kqueue, netgraph and more) instead of coming up with new ways to screw up.

Sun should be resurrected now given that risc is leading the way and build everything on top of ARM! :). if only.

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by jacques_chester on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:26PM (#11819463)
Linux can't be blamed for the decision to place Sun's technologies under the CDDL.
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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by halayli on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @08:55PM (#11819582)
there's no license for kqueue's interface or netgraph, and many other great interfaces. but they decide to create square wheels and not leverage from errors that others have made before them.
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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by jacques_chester on Thursday June 02, 2016 @07:27AM (#11821677)
You're right.

I was thinking mostly of the eternal buzzkill that ZFS is only usable through indirect means.

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