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Re: xfs for solaris?

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Subject: Re: xfs for solaris?
From: Jameel Akari <jakari@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 00:27:28 -0500 (EST)
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Michael Whang wrote:

> does anyone know if this is available?

Normally I'd let this go but I'm in one of those moods. ;)

Umm.. no.  XFS being developed by SGI and all (ya know, IRIX...) doesn't
make it a really good idea to give it to a competitor.

You'll have to pony up some serious bucks for Veritas if you want a decent
filesystem and tools for Solaris.

Having recently (and reluctantly) renewed a Veritas contract at work for
our Sun boxes I can't say how much of a godsend XFS on Linux has been for
us.  I'm moving as much of it onto Linux with XFS as I can, which will get
us down from 12 Solaris machines to just three.

And those three support payments for Veritas will still be like $6000, and
that's just the volume manager, not VxFS.  Yikes.

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