On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:11:52PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jun 09, 2006 15:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > We're continuing to nurse along a few basically-15-year-old filesystems
> > while we do have the brains, manpower and processes to implement a new,
> > really great one.
> >
> > It's just this feeling I have ;)
>
> I think many people share this feeling (me included), hence the linux
> filesystem meeting next week... The problem is that even getting a
> half-decent disk filesystem is many years of work, and large disks are
> here before then. The ZFS code took 10 years to get to its current state,
> I understand, so I don't anticipate we will get there overnight.
I helped bring up the first instance of ZFS running as a kernel module
on Halloween, 2002 (one fun week staying up all night hacking with
Jeff Bonwick). The earliest code was written in either 2001 or just
possibly 2000 - so 5-6 years in elapsed time. On the other hand, in
terms of total programmer staff-years put into ZFS, it's on the order
of 25 years.
I'm not sure either what the best route to the next big Linux file
system is - start from scratch or reuse a lot of code. One of the
things I want to talk about at the workshop is creative reuse of
existing code, a la the continuation inode idea.
-VAL
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