zfs indeed always sounds like a big powerful monster when you read about it.
is there any news yet as to how oracle will treat this new asset they purchased? -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Friday 11 June 2010 12:33:39 Patrick Okui wrote: > On 11 Jun, 2010, at 12:21 PM, Noah Sematimba wrote: > > Eh! So they've managed to backport the stuff NetApp has been doing > > for a while and put it in the OS. Anyone who has used NetApp will > > tell you the filer is very much like using FreeBSD and I think it is > > based on FreeBSD under the hood. > > Similar results, different approach. NetApp's filesystem snapshots are > more like the ZFS readonly snapshots rather than the ZFS read/write > clones that can be interchangeably swapped to replace the OS's idea of > the "primary" filesystem. > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zfs&sektion=8 > > I wish Sun's ZFS were license compatible with Linux. It's been a while > since choice of filesystem could make such a difference in > possibilities. > > -- > patrick > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > way. --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
