Anton B. Rang wrote:
Here's one possible reason that a read-only ZFS would be useful: DVD-ROM distribution.
built-in compression works for DVDs, too.
Sector errors on DVD are not uncommon. Writing a DVD in ZFS format with duplicated data blocks would help protect against that problem, at the cost of 50% or so disk space. That sounds like a lot, but with BluRay etc. coming along, maybe paying a 50% penalty isn't too bad. (And if ZFS eventually supports RAID on a single disk, the penalty would be less.)
Also, traditionally, CD and DVD-ROMs have poor path data protection. ZFS's end-to-end error checking is an advantage in such environments. -- richard-who-barely-survived-a-flaky-CD-ROM-cable-incident _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
