<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I am a programmer but not for OS development but in the GUI/ usability area<div>otherwise I would help (can help with testing)</div><div><br></div><div>It is really a pity. Ragarding storage and usability, Solaris and OmniOS is far better than</div><div>Linux that I use as well for my ZFS GUI. With the newest features that Nexenta integrates</div><div>into NexentaStor (beside VAII this is SMB2 and failure management on slow disks), Illumos</div><div>has the ability to be the number 1 storage OS - even in the OpenSource or low-cost area,</div><div>better than BSD or Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>If Nexenta would give Illumian more love, it might become the leading free Illumos distribution</div><div>but I do not expect that this will happen. The other „big players“ like Delphix, Joyent or</div><div>OmniOS seems to have no interest in such storage features as well as improvements in</div><div>encryption (hey we need this)</div><div><br></div><div>Gea/ <a href="http://napp-it.org">napp-it.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Am 05.08.2014 um 19:27 schrieb Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.. <<a href="mailto:info@houseofancients.nl">info@houseofancients.nl</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="NL" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Dan,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sometimes i wish was a programmer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">J</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Infra dude here, with plenty of stuff to test thing, but a programmer I am not, however if you need testers….<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Van:</b><span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dan McDonald [<a href="mailto:danmcd@omniti.com">mailto:danmcd@omniti.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Verzonden:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dinsdag 5 augustus 2014 18:48<br><b>Aan:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::..<br><b>CC:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com">omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com</a><br><b>Onderwerp:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Status of VAAI<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Someone needs to take the time to port the Illumos-nexenta bits upstream. Nobody has yet stepped up to the plate. Are you volunteering? ;)<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dan<br><br>Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br>On Aug 5, 2014, at 1:44 AM, "Floris van Essen ..:: House of Ancients Amstafs ::.." <<a href="mailto:info@houseofancients.nl" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">info@houseofancients.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi Guys,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Been waiting now for a long time for VAAI (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;">XCOPY and ATS ) to make it into COMSTAR</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;">Does anyone know if there’s any progress in that area ?</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;"><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com/msg02095.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://www.mail-archive.com/omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com/msg02095.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;">best regards,</span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;"> </span><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; line-height: 14.7pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Courier;">Floris</span><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; 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