Many enterprise customers have told us that they are waiting for two features, not yet available in ZFS, before they will adopt it widely in their datacenter environments:
- The ability to boot off of a ZFS partition. I don't actually understand this one, since you can't boot Solaris from a VxFS file system either, but I've heard it many times. The work to enable this is in progress. - The ability to permanently shrink the size of a zpool by removing a lun after migrating all the data off of it. This makes sense to me. The work to enable this is in progress. But, of course, many other enterprise customers _have_ adopted ZFS, and are quite happy with it. For a list of ZFS reference customers please contact Solaris Marketing. ZFS is used in many mission critical roles today, and by and large our customers are thrilled with it. -- Fred Sengor wrote: > On 1/18/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Simply FUD. > > I don't see many enterprises adopting ZFS even though it's been > officially out for a while now. Looking over the mailing list and > numbers of ZFS patches, it's enough to scare lots of people away. > > Don't get me wrong, I believe ZFS is a great product to have come out > of Sun's software group, however I don't think it's matured enough to > be relied upon with mission crititcal systems. ZFS is changing too > fast to be considered stable in my opinion... > > I still see VxSF (for those who can afford it) being the defacto choice. > -- Fred Zlotnick Senior Director, Solaris NAS Sun Microsystems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] x85006/+1 650 786 5006 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
