Re:Get Smart with SmartOS
by breul99 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:57AM
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I wanted to like SmartOS, but the documentation for Arch really had me spoiled. The Joyent/SmartOS docs are a mess of information for different versions that really aren't conducive to a confident first time user. That and it had problems with a pretty vanilla supermicro build. It did pick up my linux ZFS pool without a problem though, which was a nice surprise.
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Re:Get Smart with SmartOS
by solarengineer on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:27PM
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One of the goals of the openzfs community is to ensure feature compatibility when moving a zpool (a collection of disks that run a storage pool) across FreeBSD, Linux and Illumos (on which SmartOS is based). This was reaffirmed on the openzfs call that happend just 5 hours ago.
See: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w2jv2XVYFmBVvG1EGf-9A5HB...
We are run our Triton / SmartOS nodes mostly on SuperMicro hosts. I have never encountered hardware compatibly issues.
Do you recall what issues you bumped into? Might save me some potential headaches / pitfalls in the future ;-)
This has been my experience as well; I really love SmartOS and Triton, but until Joyent cleans up the documentation or builds a big enough community to crowd source it I can't generally recommend it to new users, which is sad.