On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:10 AM Guenther Alka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases. > Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features > like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in > Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include them as well. > OpenZFS on FreeBSD will soon be upstream of OpenZFS on Illumos, if it isn't already. See slide 13 of this presentation <https://drive.google.com/file/d/197jS8_MWtfdW2LyvIFnH58uUasHuNszz/view> from the OpenZFS DevSummit keynote. However, IIRC FreeBSD RELEASE hasn't switched to that implementation just yet and it needs to be installed as an optional package. > > For me the main advantage of Illumos are the Solaris inherited features. > This is mainly the "this is a whole storage operating system without 3rd > party services, evetything included from Sun made by Sun". Even a very > minimalistic Illumos distribution comes with the kernel based SMB server > that I always prefer over SAMBA due its often better performance and > better Windows ntfs alike features due nfs4 ACL support (ntfs alike) > with Windows sid as extended ZFS features (Windows AD ACL remain intact > if you move a pool), local SMB groups that are Windows compatible (Unix > groups are not), always working ZFS snaps as Windows previous versions > and mainly its simlicity. Turn it on and it just works. Add NFS from the > inventor of NFS and FC/iSCSI support with the enterprise class Comstar > stack or virtual networking. > Yeah I forgot to list Windows AD support as a very serious Illumos advantage. > > Sun build the OpenSolaris OS more or less around ZFS so ZFS integration > is simply the best. Illumos inherited this. While OmniOS/Illumos is the > production ready storage server option with stable, long term stable and > a commercial support option, OpenIndiana/Illumos is the successor of the > OpenSolaris idea of an OS with additional GUI desktop or management > options and a lot of services and more or less pure ongoing Illumos. > > gea > @napp-it.org > > > Am 15.07.2020 um 03:20 schrieb Lonnie Cumberland: > > Greetings All, > > > > Hope that everyone one is well today. > > > > Although I am assuming that this may not be the best place to ask this > > question, I am wondering if there is an advantage of Openindiana (Illumos > > based) or perhaps OmniOS over FreeBSD, or perhaps the other way around. > > > > I am going to move from Linux to either OpenIndian or FreeBSD and seem to > > be caught in the middle as both seem to have almost the same features > with > > exception that FreeBSD may have more support streams over OpenIndiana > > although this could change as time goes on. > > > > Perhaps the only real advantage that I might be able to see is that > FreeBSD > > has more hardware support, but that may not be the defining factor for > me. > > > > I am looking for that little gem in the rough, as it were, and do not > > always believe that mainstream is the only stream that can yield a bright > > future. > > > > Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > > Lonnie > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
