On 9/7/07, Mike Gerdts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me, quotas are likely to be a pain point that prevents me from > making good use of snapshots. Getting changes in application teams' > understanding and behavior is just too much trouble. Others are:
not to mention there are smaller-scale users that want the data protection, checksumming and scalability that ZFS offers (although the whole zdev/zpool/etc. thing might wind up causing me to have to buy more disks to add more space, if i were to use it) it would be nice to have a ZFS lite(tm) for those of us that just want easily expandable filesystems (as in, add a new disk/device and not have to think of some larger geometry) with inline checksumming/COW/metadata/ditto blocks/etc/etc goodness. basically like a home edition. i don't care about LUNs, send/receive, quotas, snapshots (for the most part), setting up different zpools to gain specific performance benefits, etc. i just want raid-z/raid-z2 with a easy way to add disks. i have not actually used ZFS yet because i've been waiting for opensolaris/solaris (or even freebsd possibly) to support eSATA hardware or something related. the hardware support front for SOHO users has also been slow. that's not a shortcoming of ZFS though... but does make me wish i had the basic protection features of ZFS with hardware support like linux. - my two cents _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
