dick hoogendijk wrote: > I read this just now in the Unix Guardian: > > <quote> > BTRFS, pronounced ButterFS: > BTRFS was launched in June 2007, and is a POSIX-compliant file system > that will support very large files and volumes (16 exabytes) and a > ridiculous number of files (two to the power of 64 files, to be > precise). The file system has object-level mirroring and striping, > checksums on data and metadata, online file system check, incremental > backup and file system mirroring, subvolumes with their own file system > roots, writable snapshots, and index and file packing to conserve > space, among many other features. BTRFS is not anywhere near primetime, > and Garbee figures it will take at least three years to get it out the > door. > </quote> > > I thought that ZFS was/is the way to the future, but reading this it > seems there are compatitors out there ;-)
I don't see any contradiction here - even if ZFS is the way to go, there's no objecting to other people trying their own path, right? ;-) Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
