[MPlayer-users] Solaris 10: /bin/sh != /bin/bash, and more

[Nico Sabbi]

On Wednesday 20 May 2009 12:57:11 Thomas Maier-Komor wrote:

>
> Concerning stability, I really don't know if we are talking about
> the same system. Solaris has always been rock stable for me - not
> only concerning runtime behavior, but also concerning config files
> and upgrade procedures.
>
> ZFS hasn't let me down once, which I can't say of other
> filesystems. It didn't start with the best performance, but it has
> improved from release to release, and already has features in place
> which are years ahead over anything else that is planned by
> competitors.

I had 2 massive data losses for having trusted ZFS and 3 reboots for 
having dared to compile ON and eclipse.

>
> Virtual consoles? At first I lacked them, too. But once you had a
> machine with a serial connection as a console, I used screen as a
> virtual console replacement.

why a serial console if you have a screen and a keyboard under your 
nose?

>
> But endless backward compatibility you are right. /bin/sh is really
> outdated. But one can always start one's favorite shell after 'su
> -' or use pfexec instead, which is of course preferable and
> sidesteps /bin/sh.
>
> - Thomas


I forgot to mention the brightest of gems: having to boot a good chunk 
of the OS from a ramdrive (boot_archive) that must be updated at 
every reboot rather than just a tiny initrd for loading only the 
drivers like linux does. This is an unreachable peak of nonsense.

And what mess they did do with the zones commands?
And how easily SMF breaks? 3 times in a row I had a discrepancy in a 
raid1 configuration, although the disks were perfectly intact.