On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 06:20, Dan Price wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to propose the creation of a community for technologies related > to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). > > Don't get too excited-- ZFS hasn't finished the spin cycle in the > machine just yet; and no, I can't say when that will happen. But it > would be good to have a community, and especially a mailing list ready > for the day it does become available. ZFS (the Zettabyte File System) > is Sun's next generation filesystem, aimed at providing unparalleled > data integrity and scalability under a simplified administration model.
I'm all for it, but: If it's that simple, why does it need a separate community? One of the fundamental aims of zfs is that it should "just work". (And by and large my experience supports that.) If it succeeds, what will there be to talk about? I know that my own hope is that zfs will become essentially invisible (unlike things like svm and ufs, which need constant looking at), and that the real interest is not in ZFS but the higher level services that you can layer on top of it. (Which, in a sense, argues for the wider scope of a Data and Storage Management community.) -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
