:So it's a good thing there are companies like Red Hat paying people
:full time to maintain those implementations. Support contracts get the
:users of the software paying for its maintenance, and it works very
:well for Linux.
:
:ZFS has Sun employees working around the clock too. And now they
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Matthew Dillon
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I don't think I would describe it quite like that. While there might
be commercial support, the issue is primarily that only a few people
will understand the filesystem code well enough to actually work on it,
Hi,
IMHO, Hammer is the killer-feature of DragonFly, too sad that I can't
use it on another system until it gets ported. I'd of course love to run
a native DragonFly on my laptop (I'm planning to do soon), but there is
still some unsupported hardware etc.
So instead of porting Hammer to other
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Michael Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
IMHO, Hammer is the killer-feature of DragonFly, too sad that I can't
use it on another system until it gets ported. I'd of course love to run
a native DragonFly on my laptop (I'm planning to do soon), but there is
:It's not even finished yet, I don't think it's fair to hype it as a
:killer feature. There's a lot of proving and testing left before it is
:competitive with other modern filesystems. Right now it's still
:competing with UFSv1, which is how many decades old? Let's not get
:ahead of ourselves.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Matthew Dillon
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:It's not even finished yet, I don't think it's fair to hype it as a
:killer feature. There's a lot of proving and testing left before it is
:competitive with other modern filesystems. Right now it's still
:competing with
:I don't doubt the features, but if it has to compete with modern Linux
:filesystems for single-node file server roles, it'll need a lot more
:optimization. I'm not trying to troll, but it's fair to say that there
:are still plenty of use cases that HAMMER won't suit without a lot
:more work, even
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Matthew Dillon
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So there's a wide selection, but no single filesystem has the full set
of features. If one were to compare HAMMER against all of them as a
group then, sure, I have a ton of work to do. But if you compare
