On 2/28/08, Christine Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Perry wrote: > > Alan Perry wrote: > > > > > I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. > > What I didn't > > > know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting > > shop. I got > > > asked a lot of "what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do" questions that > > I could not > > > answer (mostly because I know almost nothing about Novell). > > > > > > Is there some white paper or something on the topic? > > > > I googled for "Novell NSS" and went straight to the Overview: > > http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw65/nss_enu/data/hut0i3h5.html#hut0i3h5 > > "NSS abstracts up to four physical NetWare partitions to make them > appear as contiguous free space" > > ZFS can abstract many more than four of anything to make them appear as > continguous free space. ZFS can be used on Solaris for SPARC, Solaris > for X86, and soon to be on the Mac, and anywhere else where people > decide to port ZFS. > > "You can choose space from at least four devices of up to 2 TB each to > create a pool with a maximum pool size of 8 TB." [and more stuff > describing limitations of NSS right off the bat] > > You can make ZFS pool of any nymber of device, the max file size of ZFS > is in exabytes, max pool size is some ridiculously big number. > Checksumed, open and free, yada yada. How about that to start? > > CT > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. The open source is HUGE in my mind, you aren't tied to Solaris. Granted, that is where the main development is taking place right now, but if Sun were to fold up shop, or kill off solaris *cough*netware*cough*, zfs isn't going anywhere, and your data should be portable. I'm going to be blunt, and probably will rile up a few trolls if there are any on this mailing list: If you're talking to anyone still on netware, they're a netware zealot, and nothing you can say is going to change that. If they haven't found a reason to throw netware under the bus yet, they aren't going to. No reasonable argument as to why ZFS is superior to NSS will be heard, there will always be some caveat (ITS NOT SUPPORTED BY NOVELL!!!11), as to why it's just not a good enough reason to switch.
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