[OpenIndiana-discuss] Should I upgrade the pool?

[Robert Soubie]

Le 19/08/2012 14:42, Mike La Spina a écrit :
> You do not need to enable the feature flags at this point however you will in the future need to consider the following:
>   
> You have come to a fork in the road. You can chose one of two directions going forward.
>   
> 1. Follow the illumos path which is open and has a community.
> 2. Follow the Horacle path and hold your position with the ability to move back to Solaris ZFS.
>
> You are running a home ZFS server so the risk is very small at this point and it's really a question of what you trust.
> Do you believe that Horacle will bring something to their closed works which could be more appealing than our community based illumos path offers?
>
> For example illumos can mount any version of ZFS with feature flags, Express/Solaris cannot.

My intention, when rebuilding the server, was to stay clear from 
Oracle.  I hesitated between FreeBSD/Freenas and Illumos, and decided to 
follow that route.

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