"Orlando Andico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > simple and quick answer: > > ZFS is battle-tested on Solaris. ditto for ext3 and JFS on Linux. > > i don't think any significant enterprise would risk their production > data on such a Frankenstein :-P
Fair enough. :D Loosening the noose a bit though, there are a few enterprises (yes, probably insignificant) that do run such a setup, probably behind an Inferno grid on Linux nodes rather than on bare v9fs. One notable effort comes from Rangboom[1], which provides network file storage over 9P (which, by the way, is battle-tested on Plan 9 and Inferno.) > They would all go with the vendor-certified and -validated stand-alone > filesystems, running on a sufficiently beefy enterprise storage > solution like EMC Symmetrix, to handle their HA and replication > requirements. Well, for enterprises with (almost unlimited) coffers why not? :D There's really no argument to make against a particular brand or solution if they are really sold to it. FWIW, I think it's probably not too much to ask for a comparison between ZFS (which appears to be a total network storage solution) and 9P (which really is a network protocol, sort of a tool for bringing storage from different filesystems together and presenting them in one single coherent namespace.) It would also be probably insightful to compare ZFS with, say, git (yes, the stupid content tracker which fancies itself as a filesystem,) or 9P versus NFS (to which there's a paper[2] for.) For me though, it's certainly interesting to see how ZFS and 9P (or Plan 9, if you also take the whole thing) are so similar at an architectural level, and it'd be nice to have some idea of how the two scale. (/me puts this in the hacks queue...) To leave off, here's an interesting bit[3] from DragonflyBSD, who were (or is, I don't know) considering ZFS as a default filesystem. Cheers, Zakame Footnotes: [1] http://rangboom.com [2] http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/v9fs.pdf [3] http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2007-02/msg00001.html -- Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
