which file system to use

[Dick Davies]

On 04/08/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
> · Al Gordon <runlevel7 at gmail.com>:

> > I started
> > researching as soon as I saw David's post, and zfs looks really
> > interesting.
>
> Yes, it has many interesting features - at least in the whitepapers.
> But are all of those features actually "already" delivered? Last
> I heard is, that it should be delivered in June. Has this been done?

Yes and yes. ZFS is absolutely fantastic (and works).
I'm known as an LVM nut (and highly suspicious of 'marketing' type
claims for new technology) and ZFS makes linux lvm look like a piece
of crap in almost every respect.

I'd highly recommend getting hold of solaris express or similar just to
play around with it.

There's a good overview presentation here:

  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf

and the flash demos , etc at the homepage here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

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