On Mon, August 16, 2010 09:06, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > ZFS does raid, and mirroring, and resilvering, and partitioning, and NFS, > and CIFS, and iSCSI, and device management via vdev's, and so on. So ZFS > steps on a lot of linux peoples' toes. They already have code to do this, > or that, why should they kill off all these other projects, and turn the > world upside down, and bow down and acknowledge that anyone else did > anything better than what they did?
Well, to be fair, given the multitude of file systems available in the Linux kernel, those sub-systems would still be needed. Even with Solaris, though NFS and CIFS functionality is linked with ZFS, you still have to deal with UFS and tmpfs, and have NFS work with those. > No, they just want a copy-on-write filesystem, and nothing more. > Something which more closely complies to the architecture model that > they're already using. Btrfs does more than just COW. They also have RAID-like functionality: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices At the end of the day, they'll be rough feature-parity between the two, even though the implementations will be different: http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
