On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 22:13 +0200, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Josh Berkus pÃÅ¡e v út 14. 08. 2007 v 09:55 -0700: > > OSOL folks, > > > > I'm also, quite frankly, not clear on how it benefits the > opensolaris project > > to have ZFS be more available to other operating systems. DTrace, > certainly, > > because we're trying to get people to include DTrace probes in the > middleware > > layer which will only happen if it's multi-OS. But why do we want > to spread > > ZFS independant of OSOL? > > > > Sharing data between operating systems? Not locking users to just one > filesystem, which is locked to operating system. Today we have two > possibilities: > > a) Veritas is everywhere - commercial closed source > > b) FAT - MS has some patent for it and tried to do something around > it, > I think and not very good for data. > > Do you know another? ext2 maybe, but it is old. Sharing is the key > benefit for OSol and open source.
How about UDF - I mean, you can write to it, read it, its universally supported, it works on a variety of devices and its open and available. Matthew
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