I have been learning a little about ZFS. Some links for inquiring minds: http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ http://storagemojo.com/?page_id=122 http://storagemojo.com/?page_id=151 http://www.unixconsult.org/zfs_vs_lvm.html
A friend suggested that ZFS + JBOD was pretty much all that was needed 90% of the time. So no need for RAID. The cost of ZFS + JBOD should be lower than anything built on RAID. No hardware RAID controller to buy or break. I am also wondering how ZFS fits into the XEN/AoE world that Tracy has been exploring. http://xenaoe.org/ Yet Another Question is the availability of ZFS on Linux where it seems there are licensing issues. CDDL vs GPL. No such problem exists with FreeBSD so Release 7.0 scheduled for Jan 14, 2008 will have ZFS ... Maybe we should be looking harder at FreeBSD? Happy Holidays! BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
