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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, David Schultz wrote:
...
> Anyway, out of all the features of ZFS, support for 128-bit block
> numbers is among the least interesting, both from an engineering
> perspective and from the user's perspective.  I don't know why
> everyone is so eager to discuss them.  Much more interesting, for
> instance, is the pooled storage model for volume management.
> (Basically, you tell the system, ``I have a bunch of disks with
> similar QoS characteristics, and I want N filesystems on top of
> them.''  ZFS then dynamically shares the pool of storage among the
> filesystems.  It's amazing how much trouble this saves.)
>

Sounds like ADVFS on OSF/ALPHA...
Was nice to work with.

Bye/2
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