it's about time. this hopefully won't spark another license debate,
etc... ZFS may never get into linux officially, but there's no reason
a lot of the same features and ideologies can't make it into a
linux-approved-with-no-arguments filesystem...
as a more SOHO user i like ZFS mainly for it's COW and integrity, and
being able to add more storage later on. the latter is nothing new
though. but telling the world "who needs hardware raid? software can
do it much better" is a concept that excites me; it would be great for
linux to have something like that as well that could be merged into
the kernel without any debate.
On 6/14/07, David Magda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
Somewhat off topic, but it seems that someone released a COW file
system for Linux (currently in 'alpha'):
* Extent based file storage (2^64 max file size)
* Space efficient packing of small files
* Space efficient indexed directories
* Dynamic inode allocation
* Writable snapshots
* Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots)
- Object level mirroring and striping
* Checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available)
- Strong integration with device mapper for multiple device support
- Online filesystem check
* Very fast offline filesystem check
- Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring
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