ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/22/06, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> 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.

Except that Sun has absolutely no interest in doing anything for
Linux.  This is a purely Solaris initiative.


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