Re:FreeBSD cloud servers and ZFS from CloudSigma
by sgt on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:29PM
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I can personally vouch for the stability of ZFS and FreeBSD 8.x. I've been running it in production for years (FreeBSD 7.x before I upgraded about 4 months ago). The only thing I don't like about running FreeBSD is that the Java support is a bit lacking. I really hope the OpenJDK effort will be the new standard JDK we will all use.
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Re:FreeBSD cloud servers and ZFS from CloudSigma
by lewq on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:56PM
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Likewise, ZFS on FreeBSD is production ready.
I'm so grateful to the FreeBSD team for rescuing ZFS from the ahem complexities wrt OpenSolaris caused by the Oracle takeover.
Some related interesting news is that ZFS is coming to the Linux kernel (not zfs-fuse) in December, courtesy of these guys: http://zfs.kqinfotech.com/
We'll be following that up with a Linux port of our web cluster, which is pretty cool as it will allow our stuff to run on EC2 and all the other Xen cloud infrastructures.
In the meantime FreeBSD remains our primary platform, and I can heartily recommend CloudSigma for FreeBSD in the cloud. They've been good to us.
And if anyone knows where Kip Macy is lurking let him know we want FreeBSD on EC2 please!
Re:FreeBSD cloud servers and ZFS from CloudSigma
by lewq on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:58PM
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On Java on FreeBSD - I didn't have any trouble. I just used the port (http://www.freebsd.org/java/ for info) and it ran fine. We were using Apache Solr at the time.