Why illumos

My offsite Backup-Server running Fedora CoreOS on a Btrfs RAID-5 died recently due to Btrfs Shooting its own foot of, since a single disk-failure with Btrfs RAID-5 obviously means that the whole array is unrecoverable…

So in what was i thought was better than Btrfs RAID-5 i decided to install OmniOS which is a illumos distribution stemming from the OpenSolaris days at SUN Microsystems.

I always thought of Solaris as this elusive highly advanced UNIX since it had so many really advanced features way before any other *NIX ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow and Zones so with this impressive repertoir i decided to give OmniOS a shot.