hardware raid solutions?

[David Abrahams]

ubuntu at rio.vg writes:

> Is it just me, or does ZFS just sound too good to be true?
>
>>From the opensolaris site:
>
> "What is ZFS?
>
> ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration,
> transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense
> scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing
> technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've
> blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at
> the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use."
>
> Doesn't that just sound like a scam?  I keep waiting to hear what the
> downside is...  or maybe I've just been in this business too long and
> have gotten burned too many times...

If you look around at various blogs about ZFS and RAID-Z you can find
people taking potshots at it.  Didn't look to me as though any of the
arguments stood up.  Some things pure improvements on what came before.

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Dave Abrahams
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