Excerpts from Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk's message of 2011-03-01 13:35:42 -0500: > Hi all > > Having managed ZFS for about two years, I want to post a wishlist. > > INCLUDED IN ZFS > > - Mirror existing single-drive filesystem, as in 'zfs attach'
This one is easy, we do plan on adding it. > - RAIDz-stuff - single and hopefully multiple-parity RAID configuration with > block-level checksumming We'll have raid56, but it won't be variable stripe size. There will be one stripe size for data and one for metadata but that's it. > - Background scrub/fsck These are in the works > - Pool-like management with multiple RAIDs/mirrors (VDEVs) We have a pool of drives now....I'm not sure exactly what the vdevs are. > - Autogrow as in ZFS autoexpand We grow to the available storage now. > > NOT INCLUDED IN CURRENT ZFS > > - Adding/removing drives from VDEVs We can add and remove drives on the fly today > - Rebalancing a pool We can rebalance space between drives today. > - dedup ZFS does have dedup we don't yet. This one has a firm maybe. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
