Re: [zfs-discuss] A little different look at filesystems ... Just looking for ideas

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Ross, Gary (G.A.) wrote: What if something like the old CacheFS was revived, using ZFS as the base file system instead of UFS? Using the ZFS filesystems on servers as the "master" systems, the laptop builds a "cache" of files, used in the last month or so. If we ignore the "merging" problem for

Re: [zfs-discuss] A little different look at filesystems ... Just looking for ideas

2007-01-26 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:11:13AM -0800, Ed Gould wrote: > > Disconnected operation is a hard problem. One of the better research > efforts in that area was CODA, at CMU. CODA was, as I recall, and > extension to AFS, but it's probably reasonable to take some of those > ideas and marry them

Re: [zfs-discuss] A little different look at filesystems ... Just looking for ideas

2007-01-26 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 26, 2007, at 10:57, Ross, Gary (G.A.) wrote: ... What if something like the old CacheFS was revived, using ZFS as the base file system instead of UFS? ... Could this be a good thing, or am I way off base??? Disconnected operation is a hard problem. One of the better research efforts

[zfs-discuss] A little different look at filesystems ... Just looking for ideas

2007-01-26 Thread Ross, Gary \(G.A.\)
Here's something I've been noodling around for a while. I'd like to run this by some of you in this forum and see what you think. If I'm off topic, I apologize. ZFS gives large companies the ability to have huge amounts of data available to the desktop user. Moving the user data from a locally ins