choosing a file system

[Robert Banz]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Pascal Gienger wrote:

> LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> zfs (but we should switch to solaris or freebsd and throw away our  
>> costly
>> SAN)
>
> Why that? SAN volumes are running very fine with Solaris 10 hosts  
> (SPARC
> and x86). You have extended multipathing (symmetric and asymmetric)  
> onboard.
> Solaris accepts nearly all Q-Logic FC cards  (according to my  
> experience).


At my last job, we had explored a Dell/EMC SAN at one point. Those  
folks don't seem to understand the idea that Fibre Channel is a well  
established standard -- they only expect you to connect their  
supported stack of hardware and software, otherwise they don't wanna  
talk.

-rob