hardware raid solutions?

[David Abrahams]

ubuntu at rio.vg writes:

> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
>>> Is it just me, or does ZFS just sound too good to be true?
>>>
>> 
>> yes, on one hand it does sound like a scam.  At the same time, many of 
>> the things we have in our lives would sound like scams to people 20 
>> years ago.  Hell, the fact that I am talking to the computer and it is 
>> recognizing accurately 19 words of the 20 would sound like a scam even 
>> 15 years ago.
>
> But this is something that sounds like a scam today, and is supposed to
> be available next month...

It's already available today on Solaris.  Solaris is now free, so you
can test it yourself.

> I'm not shooting it down, so much as being skeptical.  

Good.  I'd be very glad if someone could test the claims.

> I certainly hope
> it performs.  I'm not surprised your ideas about anti-spam were shot
> down.  There have been so many bad suggestions for how to deal with
> spam, I recall seeing a form letter with check-boxes created.
>
> Also, the open source community, as a whole, tends to follow Linus
> Torvald's maxim: "Show me the code."  Maybe it's that I've seen an awful
> lot of blogging on ZFS, but not alot of code.

It's open source.  You can download the code.


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