[indiana-discuss] scope (was ZFS to the max)

[Keith Bierman]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:04:14PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote:
>
>> erm... there are systems which only boot (disk) off of FC, they  
>> have no
>> other disk interfaces.  I would expect that they would like to  
>> boot, too.
>
> I'm sure they would.  But I was under the impression (mistaken,  
> perhaps?)
> that Indiana was targeted at software developers, who are much more  
> likely
> to be using laptops,

HPC customers are also likely to be good candidates for Indiana.  
Mostly Linux today, want to continue to have an environment which  
feels similar; willing to make some compromises for performance. Not  
usually interested in Enterprise long release and support cycles.

Please don't pigeon hole Indiana into too small a hole.



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