On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 14:23 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > 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. > >>-- > >>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. > ... You're conveniently ignoring the fact that: A. FUSE was never designed to be used for root FS. Even if it's possible (and I don't know FUSE enough to be certain) the performance hit should make ZFS-FUSE irrelevant. B. CDDL might be OK for Fedora, but it's not OK for kernel tree people; Until ZFS enters the main tree, ZFS is of little interest for Fedora (and/or this list) Gilboa
