On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:26:34PM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote.. > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, David Schultz wrote: > ... > >Anyway, out of all the features of ZFS, support for 128-bit block > >numbers is among the least interesting, both from an engineering > >perspective and from the user's perspective. I don't know why > >everyone is so eager to discuss them. Much more interesting, for > >instance, is the pooled storage model for volume management. > >(Basically, you tell the system, ``I have a bunch of disks with > >similar QoS characteristics, and I want N filesystems on top of > >them.'' ZFS then dynamically shares the pool of storage among the > >filesystems. It's amazing how much trouble this saves.) > > > > Sounds like ADVFS on OSF/ALPHA... > Was nice to work with.
Still is. AdvFS is in Tru64/TruCluster. It is the clusterfs for TruClusters. -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
