Owen Densmore wrote: > Steve's Dad just sent along a pointer to ZFS, the new Solaris File > System: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs > I love the information about boiling the ocean in the article! > > Well, what's even more cool, is that many Unix systems are porting > this FS. In particular, its rumored Apple is doing so, possibly for > the upcoming Leopard release. > http://loop.worldofapple.com/
I think the new builds of Solaris Express support raidz2 (double parity, also known as RAID-6), so that's another thing ZFS has going for it, in theory with a double parity array you can lose two drives and still recover data in a drive array. We will be setting up a file server prototype here at Bioneers in the next month or so to test ZFS (under Solaris x86). I'm wondering if Marcus has used ZFS yet? There's an interesting paper on the Galois Field Algebra aspects of double-parity RAID here; http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf the link is from Adam Leventhal's web log; http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/double_parity_raid_z There are many testimonials giving strong support to ZFS for file serving. http://blogs.sun.com/elowe/entry/zfs_saves_the_day_ta -Nick -- _ __ ____ ____ (_)____/ /__/ __/ / __ \/ / ___/ //_/ /_ / / / / / /__/ ,< / __/ /_/ /_/_/\___/_/|_/_/ Nicholas S. Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
