wonslung said:
Almost every aspect of the filesystem is faster on my hardware. CIFS and NFS perform much better on my hardware. I love ZFS in FreeBSD, dont' get me wrong, but my experience has been that for a storage based build (like a nas or file server) OpenSolaris ZFS performs better.
Of course, at the same time, I can use FreeBSD to get ZFS on hardware which solaris won't even run. Building software on FreeBSD is a breeze, while building almost anything on solaris is a pain.
I was thinking generally about Solaris/OpenSolaris performance, not strict filesystem related, IMHO FreeBSD needs some time for more tweaking towards ZFS, something like 9.0-RELEASE ;p
I also miss a 'core' OpenSolaris version, something minimal and slim like FreeBSD minimal install (base system + man pages + kernel), IMHO OpenSolaris should also add a minimal version that does not include full featured GNOME desktop, but a minimal core installation that can be easily expanded (and understud), since with all these SMF running/defined its not as that simple to separate GNOME/desktop ones with strict OpenSolaris services.
wonslung said:
Opensolaris has an in kernel CIFS module which allows you to share filesystems to windows hosts. It's much more convenient than samba, and the ACL's (when set up correctly) work exactly as they would on windows machines. This is an area where ZFS on OpenSolaris wins.
Yes, that is also very nice feature, maybe we will se a port of it into FreeBSD.
wonslung said:
OpenSolaris has COMSTAR which allows you to do some cool stuff with iscsi and it also has the legacy "zfs shareiscsi" I might be wrong, but does FreeBSD have this yet?
FreeBSD definitely lacks features in that 'space' there is iSCSI initiator in the base but the target is only in the ports (but I have heard that it works well), but until there will be a 'defined' iSCSI target in the base, anything related to zfs iscsi/share would be useless on FreeBSD.
About 'space' I also think about lack of multipathing support.
It would be also nice to have something like COMSTAR in FreeBSD (another port?) ;p
wonslung said:
do any of the "zfs share" commands work on FreeBSD? I'm not sure...sharenfs might work...i can't remember....
I do not used/needed that functionality, so I am not the best person to ask
IMHO OpenSolaris still has the same problem, lack of third party application available as packages (or by pkgsrc or any other software repository).
Regards mate.