[mythtv-users] thoughts on a combined backend/NAS box?

[Jim Oltman]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
> .....
> > I agree on the ZFS point.  It can really help to ensure your data doesn't
> > get corrupted during normal operation (if you know how to use ZFS).  I'd
> > stay away from ZFS on Linux for a while.  It's a different implementation
> > than the Solaris and I'm not sure if it has all the bugs worked out yet.
>
> The best open source implementation of ZFS is in illumos.  The FreeBSD
> implementation is good, but has some issues (see the FreeBSD lists
> for the state).  The Linux implementation, while an interesting first step,
> suffers from some fundamentally incompatible architectural design issues
> between Solaris and Linux kernels, and is likely to forever live in a
> not quite ready for enterprise environment (due to its use of shims to
> deal with licensing, and no enterprise vendor willing to take ownership
> of maintenance of the core zfs code base).
>
> The Linux way forward is btrfs.  On paper it has many (and more) of
> the features of ZFS.  Its current implementation is not, yet, quite all
> there, and certainly does not have the time on the street to prove
> itself.  That will all, eventually, change.
>
> Gary
>

Gary,

I completely agree about the FreeBSD/FreeNAS solution being less than
optimal.  Hence my desire to move to OmniOS.  I just liked the GUI in
FreeNAS.  But learning the CLI will be better for many reasons.  Plus,
learning KVM will be kinda cool, too.
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