Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

[Zenny]

nanoBSD is a fun to work with, yet very time consuming. There is a ton
of stuffs that is coming with FreeBSD9 like the resource allocation to
jails and HAST.

The new FreeNAS team (maybe ixsystems management) has made some
marketing gimmicks
(http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?5291-Is-this-deliberate-in-FreeNAS8)
which deviates me away from FreeNAS8 whereas FreeNAS 0.7.5 version
looks promising, but to create something useful with jails seems to be
a strenous task with that image.

That is the reason I wanted to go with DFBSD with HAMMER, which also
has some limitations till these lines are written. ;-)

On 12/29/11, Edward Martinez <edwardm1 at live.com> wrote:
> On 12/29/11 00:26, Zenny wrote:
>> Thanks for the list of alternatives. I figured out the cons cons which
>> I didn't like:
>>
>> Limitation to desktop: OpenIndiana is geared towards desktop-oriented
>> and their usb img does not work when I tried a few days ago.
>>
>> Architecture limitation: SmarOS only supports intel architecture
>> (because Joyent is an Intel-sponsored company).
>>
>> Size Limitation: Nexenta's community version only supports 18TB and
>> also requires registration
>>
>> Mere a release: Illumos is mere a release on which OpenIndiana,
>> SmartOS are based on which already has limitations.
>>
>> In case HAMMER has two features like volume management and internal
>> cache with DFBSDs installer that allows to install in more than one
>> disk, it would be the finest thing in the world. ;-)
>>
>> On 12/28/11, Edward Martinez<edwardm1 at live.com>  wrote:
>>> On 12/28/11 10:13, Zenny wrote:
>>>> I have no option than going for a freebsd+zfs (with
>>>> nanobsd).
>>>
>>>      Hi,
>>>
>>>       Have you looked into other great OSes that also uses ZFS:
>>> OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Nexentastor. which they are based on
>>> illumos,kernel (a  forked form Opensolaris)?
>>>
>>>       http://openindiana.org/
>>>       http://smartos.org/
>>>       http://www.nexenta.org/
>>>       https://www.illumos.org/
>>>
>>
>      Interesting...was not aware SmartOS only works on Intel. I agree
> nanoBSD or maybe freeNAS  would make  great alternatives:-)
>