On 01/17/2012 01:06 AM, David Magda wrote: > Kind of off topic, but I figured of some interest to the list. There will be > a new file system in Windows 8 with some features that we all know and love > in ZFS: > >> As mentioned previously, one of our design goals was to detect and correct >> corruption. This not only ensures data integrity, but also improves system >> availability and online operation. Thus, all ReFS metadata is check-summed >> at the level of a B+ tree page, and the checksum is stored independently >> from the page itself. [...] Once ReFS detects such a failure, it interfaces >> with Storage Spaces to read all available copies of data and chooses the >> correct one based on checksum validation. It then tells Storage Spaces to >> fix the bad copies based on the good copies. All of this happens >> transparently from the point of view of the application.
Looks like what the Btrfs people were trying to do. -- S _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
