Or of course you can build a low cost NAS using ZFS - just use Solaris 10.
On 8/22/07 5:07 PM, "Tom Metro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur Gaer wrote: >> My understanding--from a few years ago--was that NetApp's filesystem >> snapshot facility was something of a side-effect of NetApp's propriety >> WAFL file system/implementation... > > That's my understanding as well. > > I've also wondered, given the value of that feature, why we haven't seen > it appear in one of the community developed, open source file systems. > > > Jeff Wasilko wrote: >> ZFS from Sun gets you pretty much everything that Netapp has >> (filesystem-wise), and more. > > I guess Sun saved the community the trouble of developing it (and > conveniently patented all the best parts). > > Sun opens ZFS source code > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html > > This 2005 article gives some background on ZFS and says: > > So, now that the ZFS source code is available for use, will we be > seeing it in Linux sometime soon? According to a Sun FAQ about ZFS, a > Linux port "is currently being investigated." > > > And then an article from about a year ago: > http://www.linuxinsight.com/zfs_filesystem_for_linux.html > > When ZFS was first announced, I'm sure many Linux hackers had a > thought how it would be a great idea to port such a great filesystem > to Linux. Unfortunately, ZFS source is distributed under Sun's CDDL > license which is (some say deliberately) incompatible with the GPL > license that Linux kernel uses. So, it looks like there will be no > native port of ZFS for Linux in the foreseeable future. What a pity. > > (More in the license issues here: > http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/2007/04/zfs-in-linux-kernel.html ) > > Still, lurking around the web, I have found the next best thing, a > project to port ZFS to the popular FUSE framework: ZFS on > FUSE/Linux[1]. > > Thanks to relieved FUSE licensing, which allows dynamically linking > with it without any restrictions, it looks like it's possible to port > ZFS to FUSE without any licensing problems. Of course, implementation > of filesystem in userspace can never reach speed and stability of > in-kernel filesystems, but I still find it very interesting. > > 1. http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE > and http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/ > > So it is already available on Linux, but in toy form. So much for > creating a low-cost NAS using ZFS. I guess there is always FreeBSD[2]. > > 2. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-April/070544.html > > -Tom --Peter Blog: http://pbgalvin.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
