Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-28 Thread Darren Reed
I've had people mention that WAFL does indeed support clones of snapshots. Is this a what version of WAFL problem? Darren ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Praveen Mogili
Hi, I m sure some of you may have heard this already ' ZFS is a reverse engineered WAFL' from NetApp guys. If not, you will soon... Has anyone put together a white paper or a presentation or some bullet points positioning ZFS vs WAFL. S10 and ZFS is opensource is great but If there is some

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
On 7/27/06, Praveen Mogili [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I m sure some of you may have heard this already ' ZFS is a reverse engineered WAFL' from NetApp guys. If not, you will soon... Has anyone put together a white paper or a presentation or some bullet points positioning ZFS vs WAFL. S10

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Richard Elling
From a RAS perspective, ZFS's end-to-end data integrity feature is critical. If the competing file system doesn't have this capability, then they can't play in this sandbox. -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Dunham
one more time with the attachment I wouldn't say that either system had Raid-5. Both raid-4 and raid-z have significant differences in how they work from raid-5. Netapp certainly has quotas, but they're not as flexible as ZFS. Can you explain more what you mean by 'Raw device' and 'volume

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:17:47AM -0700, Praveen Mogili wrote: S10 and ZFS is opensource is great but If there is some solid material with technical detailsI would really appreciate it. The ZFS on-disk file format is here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
On 7/27/06, Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one more time with the attachment I wouldn't say that either system had Raid-5. Both raid-4 and raid-z have significant differences in how they work from raid-5. Netapp certainly has quotas, but they're not as flexible as ZFS. Can you