Below are some points about ZFS and BeneliX that were made in the meetup. ZFS is a cutting edge filesystem<http://www.google.co.in/search?q=cutting+edge+filesystem>from Sun Microsystems adopted by BeneliX <http://www.belenix.org/>.
Some of the underlying concepts of ZFS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS>that I think is simply stunning are: * Storage is managed by pools<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Storage_pools>. A storage pool abstracts several block devices. * Allows for easy addition and replacement of drives to a pool with zfs *add * and *replace* commands. * Ability to create large sparse files<http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data> . * Snapshots<http://docs.huihoo.com/opensolaris/solaris-zfs-administration-guide/html/ch06.html>: A snapshot is a read-only copy of a filesystem. It consumes no additional space initially and is created instantly. The snapshot starts consuming space when the data that is being snapshot changes. So snapshots can be used for backup. Snapshots can also be used as means to collaborate over a project with the zfs *send* and *receive* commands. * Clones<http://docs.huihoo.com/opensolaris/solaris-zfs-administration-guide/html/ch06s02.html>: A clone is a writable copy of a filesystem. It is created instantly and initially occupies no space ( because ZFS implements the copy-on-write<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Copy-on-write_transactional_model>idiom ). * ZFS has no notion of formatting. I had taken a VBox image of BeneliX from Sriram (comes in two DVDs). I tried installing BeneliX onto it VBox complained that it could not detect any boot medium. I will try to figure out the problem soon. Thanks to Sriram and Moinak for introducing us to this wonderful technology. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I had some stuff to take care of and was too tired to attend the > > meeting. How did it go? Any tidbits that the list might benefit from? > > > > The opencalais session was good. I'm going to tell my colleagues about > this, and they'd surely explore it more. > > Anand and Ramdas have asked that we have sessions again with more > detail. I agree, since the scant amount of ZFS that I showcased today > was in itself radically different from what we all know from other > file systems. > > I request feedback from other attendees on today's ZFS session. Please > let me know what else you'd have liked me to cover at an introduction > level. > > -- Sriram > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >
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