From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 20:11:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CDE16A41B for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904C713C448 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 20:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF841CC8B for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:11:23 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:11:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802022111.21862.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: Looking for a Text on ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:11:24 -0000 On Saturday 02 February 2008 20:07:50 Christian Baer wrote: > Can anyone give me a link to a text on ZFS that tells me why I might want > to use that instead of FFS? I don't want to start a discussion which is > better, just a comparison, as I assume that the two are not designed to do > the same things. And if possible one that is understandable to people who > don't hack FS-code. :-) If you review the "Not done" items @ http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS and still are doubting, then http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/whatis/ describes what the features *can* be. I got a good impression from that text what the advantages are, but I'm too conservative to migrate myself. YMMV. -- Mel