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> Built on top of Oracle's ZFS, this scale-up, unified block (FC and iSCSI) and file (NFS and SMB) storage solution runs on Linux

I thought Nexenta was Solaris based and not Linux?

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More specifically, NexentaStor (the OS which was explicitly mentioned in the article) was at one point based on OpenSolaris, and subsequently switched to illumos when Oracle inevitably murdered the OpenSolaris project.

The article reminds me of people who try to claim that "Mac OS is a Linux distro".

They probably just said that because it's ZFS, and didn't look at the upstream. IIRC, Nexenta pulls from Illumos like all the other ZFS-based storage vendors.

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