I > >> suspect ZFS will change that game in the future. > In > > particular for someone doing lots of editing, > >> snapshots can help recover from user error. > > > > Ah - so now the rationalization has changed to > snapshot support. > > Unfortunately for ZFS, snapshot support is pretty > commonly available > > We can cherry pick features all day. People choose > ZFS for the > combination (as well as its unique features).
Actually, based on the self-selected and decidedly unscientific sample of ZFS proponents that I've encountered around the Web lately, it appears that people choose ZFS in large part because a) they've swallowed the "Last Word In File Systems" viral marketing mantra hook, line, and sinker (that's in itself not all that surprising, because the really nitty-gritty details of file system implementation aren't exactly prime topics of household conversation - even among the technically inclined), b) they've incorporated this mantra into their own self-image (the 'fanboy' phenomenon - but at least in the case of existing Sun customers this is also not very surprising, because dependency on a vendor always tends to engender loyalty - especially if that vendor is not doing all that well and its remaining customers have become increasingly desperate for good news that will reassure them). and/or c) they're open-source zealots who've been sucked in by Jonathan's recent attempt to turn t he patent dispute with NetApp into something more profound than the mundane inter-corporation spat which it so clearly is. All of which certainly helps explain why so many of those proponents are so resistant to rational argument: their zeal is not technically based, just technically rationalized (as I was pointing out in the post to which you responded) - much more like the approach of a (volunteer) marketeer with an agenda than like that of an objective analyst (not to suggest that *no one* uses ZFS based on an objective appreciation of the trade-offs involved in doing so, of course - just that a lot of its more vociferous supporters apparently don't). - bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
