[rescue] RPi vs SS20 benchmarks (interesting)

[Jerry Kemp]

Please see inline comments.

On 12/30/15 12:03 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 12/30/2015 12:58 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>>>> It matters when it comes to having support built into the mainline
>>>> kernel and bootloader, instead of having a "Well, it works with
>>>> *relatively* recent kernels, honest" disclaimer and not being able to
>>>> boot from ZFS.
>>>
>>>     Ahh, booting from ZFS is a different matter entirely.  There are even
>>> restrictions on that in Solaris!
>>
>> Can you go into more depth on your comments on ZFS booting
>> restrictions.  I know Solaris 10u8 thru 10u11 can boot off of a
>> stand-alone or SAN disk with an rpool, and also a mirrored rpool.
>
>    One can boot from an rpool if it's a mirror, but not if it's a
> raidz<n> pool.
>
>> But pretty much of that all went away with Solaris 11, allowing for
>> booting thru ZFS under various RAID types.
>
>    Ahh ok, I speak only of Solaris 10.  I know little of Solaris 11; is
> it "out there" and runnable on SPARC systems?


Solaris 11 GA was released November 2011, i.e. (11/11) and has no problem 
booting from the various RAIDZ types.  And, a ZFS rpool is all it will 
install/boot from.

I'm not sure if this is a big deal or not.  Maybe a bigger deal for the SOHO end 
user.  It has been some time at $WORK, local drives were mirrored for OS+swap 
only, and all data and applications were on SAN.  Or, everything is on SAN, to 
include OS.

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Additional notes that may or may not be of interest to you concerning Sol 11 GA 
and forward.

64 bit kernel only - both x86 & Sparc.  32 bit code still runs just as well as 
it ever did, but the 32 bit kernel is gone.

Solaris 11 GA runs only on T-series or M-series boxes.  All those nice, but 
aging, Ultra III and Ultra IV boxes had support dropped out from under them.

Solaris 11 Express - for my personal use - All the new Solaris 11 goodies and 
updates, but runs on my personal Ultra III and Ultra IV boxes.


>
>> Or, are you referring to ZFS booting on something other than Solaris?
>
>    Nope, just Solaris, but the restriction may be gone in more recent
> releases.
>
>              -Dave