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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:48:32 -0600
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Subject: Re: Using high speed swap to improve performance?
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Lew <noone@lwsc.ehost-services.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
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On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Lew <noone@lwsc.ehost-services.com> wrote:
> Christiaan Willemsen wrote:
>>
>> About a year ago we setup a machine with sixteen 15k disk spindles on
>> Solaris using ZFS. Now that Oracle has taken Sun, and is closing up Solaris,
>> we want to move away (we are more familiar with Linux anyway).
>
> What evidence do you have that Oracle is "closing up" Solaris?

I don't think the other poster mean shutting down solaris, that would
be insane.  I think he meant closing it, as in taking it closed
source, which there is ample evidence for.