[OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

[Deano]

That’s not quite right, Illumos is open source continuation of ONNV, which
is the core foundation, however it doesn't include other consolidation that
made up OpenSolaris.

OpenIndiana does, it takes all those consolidations and produces a working
OS you can install. Of course the biggest and most important of those
consolidation is Illumos. The reason OI is only now slowly moving to
Illumos, it has many other consolidations that also required work before a
safe move could be made, and also keeping OpenIndiana in line with the
closed source variants.

There are other forks for both areas (ONNV replacements and installable OS
distributions), if for some reason Illumos and OpenIndiana aren't suitable.

HTH,
Deano



-----Original Message-----
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik at iki.fi] 
Sent: 19 March 2011 14:58
To: Michael DeMan
Cc: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org; zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] best migration path from
Solaris 10

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:26:37PM -0700, Michael DeMan wrote:
> ZFSv28 is in HEAD now and will be out in 8.3.
> 
> ZFS + HAST in 9.x means being able to cluster off different hardware.
> 
> In regards to OpenSolaris and Indiana - can somebody clarify the
relationship there?  It was clear with OpenSolaris that the latest/greatest
ZFS would always be available since it was a guinea-pig product for cost
conscious folks and served as an excellent area for Sun to get marketplace
feedback and bug fixes done before rolling updates into full Solaris.
> 
> To me it seems that Open Indiana is basically a green branch off of a dead
tree - if I am wrong, please enlighten me.
> 

Illumos project was started as a fork of OpenSolaris when Oracle was still
publishing OpenSolaris sources.

Then Oracle closed OpenSolaris development, and decided to call upcoming
(closed) versions "Solaris 11 Express",
with no source included.

Illumos project continued the development based on the latest published
OpenSolaris sources, 
and a bit later OpenIndiana *distribution* was announced to deliver a binary
distro based on OpenSolaris/Illumos.

So in short Illumos is the development project, which hosts the new sources,
and OpenIndiana is a binary distro based on it.


-- Pasi

> On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> 
> >> I think we all feel the same pain with Oracle's purchase of Sun.
> >> 
> >> FreeBSD that has commercial support for ZFS maybe?
> > 
> > Fbsd currently has a very old zpool version, not suitable for running
with SLOGs, since if you lose it, you may lose the pool, which isn't very
amusing...
> > 
> > Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
> > 
> > roy
> > --
> > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > (+47) 97542685
> > roy at karlsbakk.net
> > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/
> > --
> > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt.
Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv
anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller
eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk.
> 
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