ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 19:22:17 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:56 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 6/21/06, Josenildo Marques <josenildo.marques at gmail.com> 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
> 
> Is it just me, or is this completely irrelevant to FC?  Its not like
> there's any Linux kernel support for ZFS right now, right?

I guess we can get a head start on asking if it supports the
attributes needed for SELinux and what tools know how to
back it up.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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