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I have it's predecessor (N36L if you want to google for prices) Yes, it's very nice; but it's not that quiet. I have 4 x 2Tb in raid1, but might switch to btrfs sometime; I'm a little leery of both zfs and btrfs at the moment. In Fedora because it's most similar to what I use at work (RedHat), not really any other reason.

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ZFS has been in production in Solaris 10 since June 2006 and is quite stable and production tested.

btrfs is still considered experimental, even though it's been in the mainline Linux kernel since 2009.

You might look into the KVM support in SmartOS if you want to run other OS's on top of Solaris/ZFS.

SmartOS doesn't support AMD processes (or at least it didn't when I got my Microserver).

This is something we've been working to fix in the community! The good news is that most of the development and testing so far has been on an N36L-based Microserver, where the experimental AMD KVM support seems to work pretty well. There's a github repo -- https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm -- and hopefully I'll get time soon to respin a current SmartOS ISO with the AMD-enabled bits.

Please be sure to submit to HN when you have a new respin ready. Pretty sure there are a lot of potential new SmartOS users on here who'd like to use KVM with AMD. Got my eye on a N40L-based Microserver myself.

Oh, that is fantastic news. I may have a server rebuild in my near future.

Great to see that SmartOS developers are active on HN.

I'm interested in SmartOS but I've heard some things about it not being production ready. What's your view?

Also, being able to boot from an internal volume (not USB) is also crucial to me, as the alternative is simply not an option. (The "best" case, using a USB drive, is not an option as our server is in a shared rack and you run a risk of someone unplugging it).

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