On Jun 11, 2010, at 12:33 PM, 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.
Actually NetApp's clones do the same thing as well. though I think
they call them snap clones. Its been a couple of years since I used a
NetApp filer but I remember that they could do all of the above too.
But in any case, it is wonderful to finally have this in the open
source arena and "free" at that. Those NetApp licenses are not cheap :-)
Noah.
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