[Gllug] Veritas for Linux

[Vincent AE Scott]

Simon Trimmer(simon at urbanmyth.org)@Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:41:58AM +0000:
> 
> 
> > i know it offers a lot, but heck, i'd be tempted to go for one of the
> > commercial unixen, which has similar stuff included in the OS.
> >
> > well, actually, i probably wouldnt, but thats a tough choice for a SA.
> 
> You'll be happy to know some of the commercial OSes do have bits of the
> foundation suite in them ;) Anyway, I guess it all depends on how seriously
> you want to use Linux, half of us on the list could recite the reasons why
> people are hesitant to deploy Linux in (yuck) enterprise roles.
> 
> I'm going to regret this... :)
> 
> So, I've avoided talking about this stuff because a) (we all know) the
> community is natually cynical about big companies and binary drivers b) I'm
> not a salesman and c) I use the vxvm and vxfs but don't actively develop
> them.
> 
> Knowing the people on the list I'd expect a mixture of Vince's response and
> general argument that the community developed software is as good or better
> without knowing much about either :)


well, having recently played with LVM, i'd have to say i hope its more
reliable than that.  having just lost 36Gig of striped data.  luckily i
didnt give a toss about it.

i've used both UX, and AIX, which i believe have elements of vxfs in
them.  always been very impressed about how well they worked, and how
easy they are to setup during install, and afterwards.

> 
> It's a new port but the core technologies aren't new, it's mostly common code
> that is shared between the different platforms. If we were placing bets on
> filesystem or volume integrity I know where I'd put my money...
> 

hmm, i think i'd consider going with a company with a track record...
but at the same time, closed source drivers sounds like the sort of
thing which maybe tied closely to a kernel rev.  i'm not to keen on
things which force you to use one vendors particvular version of the
kernel.  but heck veritas seem to know what they're doing, so i'm sure
its not.



> Is anyone really interested in this?


yep, its fascinating.

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