On Jan 6, 2009, at 14:21, Rob wrote: > Obviously ZFS is ideal for large databases served out via > application level or web servers. But what other practical ways are > there to integrate the use of ZFS into existing setups to experience > it's benefits.
Remember that ZFS is made up of the ZPL and the DMU (amongst other things). The ZPL is the POSIX compatibility layer that most of us use. The DMU is the actual transactional object model that stores the actual data objects (e.g. files). It would technically be possible for (say) MySQL to create a database engine on top of that transactional store. I believe that the Lustre people are using the DMU for their future data store back end. The DMU runs in userland so anyone can use it for any object store system. People keep talking about ZFS in the context of replacing UFS/FFS, ext3, WAFL, etc., but few are utilizing (or realize the availability of) the transactional store. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
