Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:43:53 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Zach Leslie <xaque208@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca>, Chris Nehren <apeiron+freebsd-stable@isuckatdomains.net> Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <CAF6rxgnb-cnpQzY%2BvwvsiygW4nRg5Ktv-RuS1qv%2B0QVmMqO2yQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120602033328.GD50450@durance.local> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <20120601121555.GF5335@home.opsec.eu> <4FC8B67D.5090208@digsys.bg> <20120601131236.GJ8591@macbook.bluepipe.net> <20120602010346.GA27660@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> <4D744565-4073-485E-B769-82BE1F7E2C0A@ee.ryerson.ca> <20120602033328.GD50450@durance.local>
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On 1 June 2012 23:33, Zach Leslie <xaque208@gmail.com> wrote: >> So ZFS can ensure that bits-on-disk stay safe through checksums and mirroring / RAIDZ, while Gluster allows entire file servers to go offline and the files are still accessible because you have a kind of network-level RAID going on. This also helps in performance since instead of clients pounding on one file server (as usually happens with NFS), every write is sent to many data nodes so you're striping across many network elements. Think of it as NFS on steroids. > > I don't know that new work in distributed filesystems, like Ceph > (http://ceph.com/), is inherently tied to Linux, but more that devs are > choosing Linux as a platform on which to build awesome projects. The question to ask here is what utilities, APIs, and features does Linux have which cause developers to use it instead and what could we do about it? -- Eitan Adler
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