From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 03:44:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20120106566C for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:44:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB7328FC0A for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obcni5 with SMTP id ni5so4843238obc.13 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:44:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oHgw+ZwjDSTgyOVROFA1xFxeNeqKas5JQwGWPzKF7CQ=; b=Xe/AyV2KS6hjzLZ6IEYWommxRjFAN2phH8vXEeV33CDdpe70NtysldnjWrx94oMP8J M+WaN0OCeDtO7eEaKT7ei5Ggu6SvYzxMTDhV9N/Ae2iJhzI015LknNeh8OZBLjHEF2UH H8pjBFxsBfR/Pu179ObWsVxz5elfRoOMPrsTQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=oHgw+ZwjDSTgyOVROFA1xFxeNeqKas5JQwGWPzKF7CQ=; b=HctJJ5ZV1tXRxO4hw1d1RfwJwcGFNEZ41k7ZMmyJuWVbc6gfsmhgxjBRhpsI2HdJw0 qMEqPTgpFvyrdCaNWAIQSsH0aY0L1beYLapmSxk8hT0kc8M3Kiec7W8VgUvuKvXg68/o bLeGYZxmHuRHyupAxUPNrs7j/I1clJOJIYxSStc6bDzcVrmhIyFoYEjeP+sWCYQaulrm 8fN/eJJQa8WMUn7IIQy5uBUtAbtI/05jdkhJpi2TGKfEBE7nGhk3450wOMl/9DX//ooW sZyhZU10gjk5we2BYrDBTS4KL3LqmQ6pDntAQZvQIeLgnW9HsB0Up3xAfCaclId9Hf1W 4DKQ== Received: by 10.60.3.39 with SMTP id 7mr4978989oez.4.1338608664130; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:44:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.204.69 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:43:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120602033328.GD50450@durance.local> References: <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> From: Eitan Adler Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:43:53 -0400 Message-ID: To: Zach Leslie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkIMCUYL7v54YGqLqZZzgdWqFQHz5fWIYMaOTS8JxxmD8KvoEOCVZF68Gp1YqxeD9cQciwL Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, David Magda , Chris Nehren Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2012 03:44:25 -0000 On 1 June 2012 23:33, Zach Leslie wrote: >> So ZFS can ensure that bits-on-disk stay safe through checksums and mirr= oring / RAIDZ, while Gluster allows entire file servers to go offline and t= he 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 m= any 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? --=20 Eitan Adler