Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I have one of those in my loft. Used to use it for OpenBSD development.
Comment on Can my SPARC server host a website?
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I have one of those in my loft. Used to use it for OpenBSD development.
evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I have one as well, mothballed, which is why the article caught my attention. Then I saw all the mention of Cloudflare an thought: oh fuck, so it needs a wheelchair, in effect.
What originally attracted me was running a full-blown ZFS, which was too license encumbered to be fully featured in linux or bsd, IIRC. I never got around to doing much with it. And I wonder if ZFS is finally fully liberated on a FOSS platform.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Yeah, sun did some really cool stuff towards the end. ZFS, zones, SMF. I always liked their ALOM lights out management too. RIP sun.
My file server uses zfs on Linux.
As the other commenter says, GPL somewhat disagrees with the license. It flips the taint flag on the Linux kernel too.
I tried btrfs, but it’s not ready IMHO.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 days ago
it’s just GPL that’s incompatible with ZFS’s CDDL. FreeBSD has ZFS support built in (OpenZFS). Linux is also supported by OpenBSD.
evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Originally ZFS could not be a boot disk because of the license issue. There was some other important feature that was denied to linux users, originally (forgot what it was). Apparently the booting restriction was eventually overcome. I don’t really grasp how the licensing changed that made booting possible.
Conceptually ZFS was relatively superior to all other filesystems. If it’s fully liberated, I don’t get why it is not more popular. I might expect it to be a default of sorts when installing Debian.