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I have had my ZFS home server up and running for a few months now, but it was no easy endeavor to get it working the way I wanted it to.  I don't know how much of the difficulty was from trying to treat Solaris like it was linux, or if Solaris just doesn't do some things very well.  I figure since I have fought the battles, I may as well share some of what I have learned.

Distro Choice

This should have been easy, after all Solaris is Solaris right?  There are 3 main distributions to look into, Sun Solaris 10, Solaris Express Community Edition (Project Nevada), and OpenSolaris.

• Sun Solaris 10 - Distributed by Sun (Tested, Tried, Stable)
• Solaris Express Community Edition - Based on OpenSolaris, 2 week release cycle, next gen Solaris
• OpenSolaris - Open source Solaris distro, tries to compete with Linux in the desktop market

Now that I learned a little about the main distros, I have to make a choice.  This proves to be the most difficult part and I am still fighting with myself over which distro I like best.

I have ordered the parts for my new home server, the goal is to end up with about 3TB of redundant storage. More details to follow.