Someone recently posted about OpenSolaris and Gnu/Solaris and asked if any of use would ever be interested in trying it out. At the time I said no since it didn't offer me anything I didn't already have.
Well, that has suddenly changed with the announcement of Sun's uber-fs, ZFS [1]. I only have just a small inkling of what ZFS is all about, and I get the feeling this is really big. Actually huge. This is a major advancement in free unix distros. In my mind this is as huge as xen is going to be. When this is stable, I can't see any reason to use any other LVM/RAID/FS over ZFS. It just simply knocks the socks off of anything Linux has to offer right now. I hope Linux can adopt this technology somehow. Anyway, I rarely get excited about developments in Unix or even Linux. But this one I feel is very major. The ironic thing is Slashdot had a story about ZFS, but it was only a minor story with only 11 comments. Slashdotters completely missed this one. I just might be installing OpenSolaris or Nexenta[2] and building these beta kernels with ZFS support to see how it works. Michael [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ [2] http://www.gnusolaris.org -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
