At the september LISA meeting Jeff B. did suggest that they planned to - eventually - add the distributed aspect to ZFS, and when he's talking about the filesystem as a 'pool of blocks' it certainly seems like there's no reason (beyond some minor implementation issues :) why those blocks could not reside on different hosts.
I have not looked at the ZFS implementation closely enough to know how it deals with protection of the inodes and directory structure (ie. if I lose a disk or host can I reconstruct the inodes and directory tree) so this may introduce some complexity if you want your filesystem to survive one- or multiple failures. I would've assumed this has been thought of, but after discovering that I can't add a disk to my raidz2 pool (but it's just a pool of blocks!) I'm slightly less confident of this .. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
