Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:02:07 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> Cc: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS Message-ID: <20040916210207.GA64378@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040916222403.B7226@fw.reifenberger.com> References: <41483C97.2030303@fer.hr> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151047230.21034@athena> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161010020.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161528520.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20040916151216.GB29643@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <1095355201.530.14.camel@localhost> <20040916194526.GA3364@VARK.homeunix.com> <20040916222403.B7226@fw.reifenberger.com>
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:26:34PM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote.. > 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. Still is. AdvFS is in Tru64/TruCluster. It is the clusterfs for TruClusters. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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