Re: [zfs-discuss] ButterFS

2008-08-01 Thread Vincent Fox
Once upon a time I ran a lab with a whole bunch of SGI workstations. A company that barely exists now. This ButterFS may be the Next Big Thing. But I recall one time how hot everyone was for Reiser. Look how that turned out. 3 years is an entire production lifecycle for the systems in this da

Re: [zfs-discuss] ButterFS

2008-08-01 Thread Neal Pollack
dick hoogendijk wrote: > I read this just now in the Unix Guardian: > > > BTRFS, pronounced ButterFS: > BTRFS was launched in June 2007, and is a POSIX-compliant file system > that will support very large files and volumes (16 exabytes) and a > ridiculous number of files (two to the power of 64 fi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ButterFS

2008-08-01 Thread Michael Schuster
dick hoogendijk wrote: > I read this just now in the Unix Guardian: > > > BTRFS, pronounced ButterFS: > BTRFS was launched in June 2007, and is a POSIX-compliant file system > that will support very large files and volumes (16 exabytes) and a > ridiculous number of files (two to the power of 64 f

[zfs-discuss] ButterFS

2008-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
I read this just now in the Unix Guardian: BTRFS, pronounced ButterFS: BTRFS was launched in June 2007, and is a POSIX-compliant file system that will support very large files and volumes (16 exabytes) and a ridiculous number of files (two to the power of 64 files, to be precise). The file system