ZFS
I have been watching ZFS (the new filesystem from Sun) for probably 6 months now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
and looks like it is a filesystem of the future for sure., for some of the feature like ’self-healing’, ‘raid-X’ feature, just throw my mind (actually i was so tempted to gather old parts and try it)
well then, reality hits! due to license problems (no, i am not going to put any type of information here) that ZFS won’t be able to port to Linux natively (at least not for a while). but there is a userland port available http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
but then, seems like FreeBSD already ported ZFS
http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSQuickStartGuide
I guess whatever I said regarding Linux has superior filesystems (back in Annvix on BSD comments) a while ago need to have reality check again =)
anyone has any experiences with ZFS?
Comments
Comment from Ying-Hung Chen
Time: July 10, 2007, 9:12 am
o yea, i heard that too, (the ZFS is gonna be a default filesystem for OS X)
actually, i have used sshfs for a while, and was thinking about putting into ports or put in main for 2.1-CURRENT (maybe 2.0…)
guess what, because of ZFS, I am actually installing a freebsd just to play with it.. hehee
Comment from Vincent Danen
Time: July 10, 2007, 9:00 am
No, no real-life experience with ZFS, but I have been doing some reading and paying some attention to it (although, honestly, most of it has been due to the rumours of it being the default FS in OS X 10.5).
I do think, however, that we need to put fuse support in Annvix so that we can a) use the ZFS fuse support (or at least play with it) and also things like sshfs which is very very neat stuff.