Re: ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives

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Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:30 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:

Josenildo Marques wrote:

"The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems. Breaking free of the traditional volume or partition architecture, ZFS combines scalability and flexibility while providing a simple command interface. Coined by Sun as the "last word in filesystems," ZFS is already being ported to several Linux distributions and Mac OSX. Designed to have at least a 30 year shelf life, this filesystem will make waves with its upcoming release in Solaris 10. We've been playing with ZFS for several months and have written some recipes about its basic administration. Here are ten reasons why you'll want to reformat all of your systems and use ZFS."
http://www.tech-recipes.com/solaris_system_administration_tips1446.html



I was talking to one of our IT people about this yesterday after reading the article. Some of the features that are not listed in the article would make this the ultimate desktop FS.

I did some searching on ZFS and found that there are some great tools as part of the FS. There are simple tools for backup and abilities to enable undelete as well as imaging built into the FS.

This is a good blog on how it compares to normal usage.

 Why ZFS for home
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-zfs-for-home.html

I for one would love to have this on my home system.

The one thing that I am reading is that it is fast which is an issue with larger and larger files.

It is something worth looking at to make linux better for both the home and business user.
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Robin Laing



err... this thread is -pointless-.
Unless someone finds a way to bridge CDDA and GPL -and- port ZFS to
Linux, this thread just eats precious bandwidth.

Gilboa



The CDDL and GPL are one at least as RedHat/Fedora is concerned.

But ZFS is being ported to Linux.

Friday, May 26, 2006
Announcing ZFS on FUSE/Linux

http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/2006/05/announcing-zfs-on-fuselinux.html

I'm very pleased to announce that, thanks to Google, Linux will (hopefully) have a working ZFS implementation by August 21st, 2006.

Again, this goes along with all the other file system support that is within Linux either directly or indirectly such as NTFS.

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Robin Laing


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