[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Jacob Ritorto]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you want to get really minimalist then you could use ufs rather
> than zfs. This also saves the space needed for the drivers and tools,
> which isn't negligible. Tribblix again is one of the only distros to
> support installation to a ufs file system, although it's been a while
> since I tested it.
>
> I'd be interested in helping out with this, if you're motivated enough to
include it on your distro.  Let's talk off-list.



> There's a slight difference in emphasis in the Solarish world. Because
> we've been into containerization for so long, you have the model where
> a larger instance runs many lightweight containers, rather than running
> many standalone instances; in this world there isn't the same drive
> to reduce the host footprint. So I guess it hasn't had a lot of attention.
>


Very true point.  Maybe, in all honestly, I guess I just really miss having
a good unix workstation as my daily driver.  I got relocated from OI to
Macintosh rather forcefully at last job and was just never terribly
'comfortable,' so to speak, since then.

-j


>
>
> > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 02/ 1/15 01:50 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> > >
> > >> Jerry Kemp wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> You have taken it a lot further than I would have.
> > >>>
> > >>> For an Ultra 5 or 10, I probably would not have gone past Solaris 10,
> > >>> and due
> > >>> to your ram being well under 4 Gb, I would stay on UFS vs ZFS.
> > >>>
> > >>> When you say "Solaris 11 install" in reference to this box, do you
> mean
> > >>> an
> > >>> install of Sun OpenSolaris?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> snv_65 is an early development build of Solaris 11 - actually more
> like
> > >> Solaris
> > >> 10 than even the earliest Solaris 11 releases.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > yep.  Missed that part, and saw it less than 10 minutes after hitting
> the
> > > send button.   Sun OpenSolaris Nevada build 65.
> > >
> > > But I still stick by my comments concerning the system RAM.  If the OP
> is
> > > committed to this box, now is probably a great time to max out the
> > memory.
> > > Especially if he wants to move forward beyond OpenSolaris Nevada build
> > 65.
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > >
> > >
> > >
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