Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:09:35 -0500 (EST) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: comments on todays ZFS announcement ? comparison to UFS2 on 6.0 ? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511161605320.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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Hello, I found this announcement today - apparently ZFS is now available as a production item: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ Can anyone take some time and do some quick feedback on it and compare and contrast it to UFS 2 in its 6.0-RELEASE incarnation ? Mainly I am curious - if an application has no ties or dependency on FreeBSD (or any other OS), is ZFS going to be the no-brainer, obvious choice ? I am not sure if ZFS snapshots survive reboots (solaris 9 snapshots did not), and I am fairly certain you cannot boot a ZFS device. Also, it looks like a very complex filesystem. But I am just a layman - can any of the very technical people here shed some light/thoughts/bigotries on ZFS, and ZFS vs. UFS2 ? Thanks.
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