On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:30 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > Josenildo Marques wrote: > > "The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will > > revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and > > work with filesystems. Breaking free of the traditional volume or partition > > architecture, ZFS combines scalability and flexibility while providing a > > simple command interface. Coined by Sun as the "last word in filesystems," > > ZFS is already being ported to several Linux distributions and Mac OSX. > > Designed to have at least a 30 year shelf life, this filesystem will make > > waves with its upcoming release in Solaris 10. We've been playing with ZFS > > for several months and have written some recipes about its basic > > administration. Here are ten reasons why you'll want to reformat all of your > > systems and use ZFS." > > http://www.tech-recipes.com/solaris_system_administration_tips1446.html > > > > > > I was talking to one of our IT people about this yesterday after reading > the article. Some of the features that are not listed in the article > would make this the ultimate desktop FS. > > I did some searching on ZFS and found that there are some great tools as > part of the FS. There are simple tools for backup and abilities to > enable undelete as well as imaging built into the FS. > > This is a good blog on how it compares to normal usage. > > Why ZFS for home > http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-zfs-for-home.html > > I for one would love to have this on my home system. > > The one thing that I am reading is that it is fast which is an issue > with larger and larger files. > > It is something worth looking at to make linux better for both the home > and business user. > -- > Robin Laing > err... this thread is -pointless-. Unless someone finds a way to bridge CDDA and GPL -and- port ZFS to Linux, this thread just eats precious bandwidth. Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
