Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:55:07 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: user <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comments on todays ZFS announcement ? comparison to UFS2 on 6.0 ? Message-ID: <437BAABB.8020705@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511161605320.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0511161605320.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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user wrote: >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. > > looks cool.. the uberblock must run red hot though unless htey have some way of moving it around. more detail would be needed.. Wonder if there is a paper on it.. >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. > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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