[geeks] Impressive...

[Mark Benson]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
wrote:
>   It appears OpenSolaris supports the Realtek Gigabit Ethernet NIC with
>   no problems (as of the 2008.11 release/build)

Yes, they do. I found that out yesterday :)

>   If you google the MB model and OpenSolaris[0] there are many hits,
>   mainly for low-end NAS units based on the MB, typically with a PCI
>   four-port SATA controller and ZFS (Baby Thumper?)...

Yeh, I swung it over to OpenSolaris in the end,as I'd finished playing
wit hthe stuff I needed for $work. It runs OpenSolaris 2008.11
superbly, and More Stuff Works(tm).

Now I just need 3 1TB drives, a 2-port SATA card and 2 more removable
SATA bays... oh and a 500W PSU :)

I can see why they make such good NAS arrays, it's just a pitty Intel
only put 1 RAM slot on them, I'd dearly love 4GB of RAM to cache for
ZFS. Maybe I could use a Flash setup and use Johnny Schwartz's great
ideal of having Flash as your cache using all ZFS's clever algorithms
to prevent it burning out :)

See: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/managing_a_bestseller

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Mark