[OpenIndiana-discuss] The end is near

Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhunter at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 21:19:32 UTC 2017


Sorry, didn't realize this fishworks video wasn't commonplace. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

" 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the
first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and
warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all
damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG
episode "The Drumhead"
- Alex Smith
- Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <shadowhunter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/storage/sds/nexentastor/
>
> I've seen that Lenovo is offering a NexentaStor-based appliance, is that
> anything similar to what Oracle is offering, fishworks-style?
>
> Still the only thing I've seen from Fishworks is a cool YouTube video
> showing how much vibration can introduce latency into your JBODs.
>
> " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured,
> the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all
> irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and
> warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all
> damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG
> episode "The Drumhead"
> - Alex Smith
> - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area)
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
> alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/19/17 12:38 AM, Fred Liu wrote:
>>
>>> From that roadmap, my understanding is there is no on-premise and
>>> standalone Solaris and SPARC releases after 2017 and everything goes into
>>> cloud.
>>>
>>
>> Then you're misunderstanding the roadmap, which shows both on-premise &
>> cloud
>> releases going forward until at least 2021.
>>
>> So data-machine and fishwork-storage are some kinds of variations from
>>> Solaris and SPARC, if users want to touch by hand.
>>>
>>
>> ZFS Storage Appliances ("fishworks") use x86 CPUs and their own OS
>> versions,
>> with their own release schedules.   You can't make any assumptions about
>> them based on the roadmap for CPU's they don't use or OS versions they
>> don't
>> use.
>>
>>         -alan-
>>
>>
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