Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-28 Thread James Dickens
On 7/28/06, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had people mention that WAFL does indeed support clones of snapshots. Is this a "what version of WAFL" problem? apparently so, but it is rather new from the impression given from this site: http://www.tournament.org.il/run/index.php?/arc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-28 Thread Darren Reed
I've had people mention that WAFL does indeed support clones of snapshots. Is this a "what version of WAFL" problem? Darren ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
On 7/27/06, Darren Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > one more time with the attachment I wouldn't say that either system had "Raid-5". Both raid-4 and raid-z have significant differences in how they work from raid-5. Netapp certainly has quotas, but they're not as flexible as ZFS. Can you e

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:17:47AM -0700, Praveen Mogili wrote: > S10 and ZFS is opensource is great but If there is > some solid material with technical detailsI would > really appreciate it. The ZFS on-disk file format is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformatfinal.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Darren Dunham
> one more time with the attachment I wouldn't say that either system had "Raid-5". Both raid-4 and raid-z have significant differences in how they work from raid-5. Netapp certainly has quotas, but they're not as flexible as ZFS. Can you explain more what you mean by 'Raw device' and 'volume s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Richard Elling
From a RAS perspective, ZFS's end-to-end data integrity feature is critical. If the competing file system doesn't have this capability, then they can't play in this sandbox. -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Bev Crair
James, This might be interesting to add to the file system wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems I don't see WAFL there... Bev. James Dickens wrote: one more time with the attachment On 7/27/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/27/06, Pra

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
one more time with the attachment On 7/27/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/27/06, Praveen Mogili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I m sure some of you may have heard this already > ' ZFS is a reverse engineered WAFL' > from NetApp guys. If not, you will soon... > > Has any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread James Dickens
On 7/27/06, Praveen Mogili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I m sure some of you may have heard this already ' ZFS is a reverse engineered WAFL' from NetApp guys. If not, you will soon... Has anyone put together a white paper or a presentation or some bullet points positioning ZFS vs WAFL. S10

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs WAFL positioning

2006-07-27 Thread Praveen Mogili
Hi, I m sure some of you may have heard this already ' ZFS is a reverse engineered WAFL' from NetApp guys. If not, you will soon... Has anyone put together a white paper or a presentation or some bullet points positioning ZFS vs WAFL. S10 and ZFS is opensource is great but If there is some sol