ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives

[Robin Laing]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

The CDDL and GPL are one at least as RedHat/Fedora is concerned.

But ZFS is being ported to Linux.

Friday, May 26, 2006
Announcing ZFS on FUSE/Linux

http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/2006/05/announcing-zfs-on-fuselinux.html

I'm very pleased to announce that, thanks to Google, Linux will 
(hopefully) have a working ZFS implementation by August 21st, 2006.

Again, this goes along with all the other file system support that is 
within Linux either directly or indirectly such as NTFS.

-- 
Robin Laing