Any thoughts on porting OpenZFS back to illumos and having it first class citizen in it, fundamental differences feasibility, benefits

it's just a matter of enough people having the interest and time to do the work... there is one bit I need to finish (mostly just a bit of plumbing) to address a breaking on-disk format change that openzfs didn't catch...

also would probably would want to stay a bit back from the latest if anyone were to do it

is there any illumos release that works for ampere? ( an AArch64/ARMv8 )

Thanks to jclulow for setting it up, there's a new mailing list for those interested in all aspects of illumos on SPARC

Nothing there yet, but I thought I would give those interested a chance to join before starting up some conversations

That reminds me. I have a Sparcstation LX sitting on a shelf in my server room. It worked last time I powered it up - well over a decade ago - but I make no promises. I'd like it to be useful so if anyone wants it it's yours for the cost of shipping from the US Pacific NW.

I have a 440mhz Ultra 10 in the attic. I might have to dig it out and see if Tribblix runs on it :)

I remember the LX (and Solaris 2 on it, which really wasn't ready at the time). That's a museum or retrocomputing target.

The Ultra 10 may well work (the Tribblix installer will need at least 768M RAM at the moment though)

A quick browse on eBay, and some of the very old sparc boxes have some expensive price tags attached

I still have a couple of V210s in a datacentre, but have them powered off as they pull an amp each (at UK ~240V) and that was getting pricey

I feel so generous :)

nomad: sparcstation at the cost of shipping?

that's a remarkably generous offer

I do everything I can to avoid fleBay and I'm not using the thing.

Are we talking generous $$$ or generous $$$$$?

$1800??? Given my upcoming 50% income reduction maybe I should reconsider. <sigh>

yeah might be worth selling it there!

is the last fujitsu sparc hardware much better? not only is it unobtainable, but the website suggests they draw something like 200W idle in 1U

and of course no-one who would write about it (nice people with blogs) can afford to write about it, if fujitsu even sold them to small businesses

I don't know about that specifically, but the T4-1 I have here runs at about 400W which is fair enough when in use

hi, everyone! I also have an old Sun 420R, it has over 25 Kilos, the shipping of such beasts is costly. but there is a cheaper US-EU way, floating over the Atlantic, before the winter holidays, there are cargos especially for presents - you can use this way if you really want

I guess 2011 is fairly new, probably only a couple of years older than the current stuff