Alan Perry wrote: > Alan Perry wrote: > > > I gave a talk on ZFS at a local user group meeting this evening. > What I didn't > > know going in was that the meeting was hosted at a Novell consulting > shop. I got > > asked a lot of "what does ZFS do that NSS doesn't do" questions that > I could not > > answer (mostly because I know almost nothing about Novell). > > > > Is there some white paper or something on the topic? >
I googled for "Novell NSS" and went straight to the Overview: http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw65/nss_enu/data/hut0i3h5.html#hut0i3h5 "NSS abstracts up to four physical NetWare partitions to make them appear as contiguous free space" ZFS can abstract many more than four of anything to make them appear as continguous free space. ZFS can be used on Solaris for SPARC, Solaris for X86, and soon to be on the Mac, and anywhere else where people decide to port ZFS. "You can choose space from at least four devices of up to 2 TB each to create a pool with a maximum pool size of 8 TB." [and more stuff describing limitations of NSS right off the bat] You can make ZFS pool of any nymber of device, the max file size of ZFS is in exabytes, max pool size is some ridiculously big number. Checksumed, open and free, yada yada. How about that to start? CT _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
