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Tangential, but is anyone still using Illumos in production?

Literally just deployed a pair of new OmniOS NFS servers last night, for high-availability hosting. We also serve VM storage from a pair of Illumos ZFS boxes over iSCSI.

We switched most of our primary NFS storage pairs from Linux to Illumos a good five years ago due to a bunch of locking issues and race conditions with high-volume NFS traffic. Solid as a rock as long as you have the right HBA heh

I believe Oxide computer are

I wonder how much that has to do with Bryan Cantrill leading the company

Not unrelated, of course -- but it was certainly not the foregone conclusion that you might expect![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5Mk_IggE0&t=5317s

Ah, makes a ton of sense actually, thanks.

Didn't mean to Beetlejuice you, Bryan :)

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