I agree, in as far as I personally think ZFS should be the default, and we should build around that assumption while retaining the ability to choose other options, with feature degredation.
For example if we were to do a ZFS snapshot prior to upgrading or installing a package, that feature is obviously not available with other filesystems, but we shouldn't restrict ourselves to not doing it just because UFS is braindead technology On 6/24/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Murdock wrote: > > > > One thing I don't see on the requirements list is ZFS as the default > > file system. > > > > This really needs to be there. It's one of the killer features of > > Solaris, and we should make sure we use it to maximum advantage. > > I agree but it would be nice to keep some room for alternatives. For > example there is QFS which is far more capable in other areas like > performance, "Quality Of Service", multiple writers and other advanched > features (for example the abilty to split data from inodes+log, e.g. you > can put data on normal disks and inodes+log in other disks (which > becomes very usefull if you put inodes+log on solid state disks, making > access to these data _much_ faster and seperate the accesses from the > main data, resulting in a faster and "smoother" data throughput...)). > > And ZFS currently lack important features like "user quotas" which > renders ZFS currently _unuseable_ for universities or other large sites > with many directories shared by multiple users and the NFS performance > on ZFS is currently not very good (for example builting OS/Net (the > OpenSolaris "core") on a NFS directory backed by ZFS needs significantly > more time than the same setup on NFS+UFS) and on older machines the > performance can be described as "disaster". > > Or short: IMO it would be nice to keep support for alternatives in > Solaris/OpenSolaris/Indiana alive... > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > -- > __ . . __ > (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 > (;O/ \/ \O;) > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Availiable on hkp://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
