Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

["Xu CanHao" <xucanhao@gmail.com>]

2007/5/2, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:17:14PM +0800, Xu CanHao wrote:
> > Reiser4 may lack some core function, but ZFS on Solaris is as
> > functional as ext3 on Linux(or even more). So compare Reiser4 with
> > ZFS may be inappropriate.
>
> Functional, but it's a new filesystem with not as much time-tested
> experience in the field.  Many Solaris system administrators are
> electing to wait rather than immediately press it into service for
> critical servers, electing to use Solaris's UFS instead.  I've heard a
> few problems with ZFS recovering from data corruption, but not enough
> to know whether it is a general trend (not that I track that kind of
> stuff).  As a rule, enterprise system administrators that run PO
> servers for thousands of users as a time are extremely conservative,
> and for good reason.
>
> Of course, there's a big difference between those folks and people
> using ZFS for their own personal development.
>
>                                                 - Ted
On May 1, 1:50 am, Theodore Tso <t...@mit.edu> wrote:
> In general, yes, ext4 development has been a little slow; part of the
> problem is that we have a lot of people, but a number of folks are new
> and their patches need review before they are ready for upstream
> acceptance, and a number of other folks who should be doing the review
> have been overloaded with multiple other projects and have been
> time-sharing.

It is predictable that ext4 needs a loooong time to be enterprise-ready ;)
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