On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Karl Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:45:31 -0500, >>> I spewed something along the lines of: > > K> In my experience, completely new filesystems or operating systems need at > K> least 5 years in the field to weed out all the weird corner-cases. I might > K> trust ZFS on Sun hardware (*with* vendor support) at this point, but I'd > K> wait awhile before trying it on anything else. > >>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:28:51 +0100, >>> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > W> if it will ever be good filesystem, it will be no longer ZFS. just the > W> ideas is in big part wrong. > > I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at least one idea in ZFS is > worth its weight in platinum: end-to-end file-integrity checks. ZFS can > (and does) find and correct file errors introduced by disk firmware and > media problems. With the sheer volume of stuff being stored these days, > that capability (in any filesystem) is going to be crucial.
This is one of the main reasons i want to go with ZFS. Another would be the filesystem level compression of the data. I have noticed that 3dmax files (one of the programs the company works with) are very "compressable" (from 50 Mb to ~ 7Mb). thank you, v > > -- > Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company > > I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York > said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't > cold enough. Let's go west." --Richard Jeni > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
