Carson Gaspar wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> Fabian Wörner <fabian.woer...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> my post was not to start a discuss gpl<>cddl. >>> It just an idea to promote ZFS and OPENSOLARIS!!!! >>> If it was against anything than against exfat, nothing else!!! >>> >> If you like to promoote ZFS, you need to understand why the party you like >> to promote it to does not already use it ;-) >> > > And for SDXC, ZFS will probably never be the filesystem of choice. > Removable media of this type is mostly used in portable electronic > devices, such as cameras, cellphones, etc. All of which are power, CPU, > and memory limited. ZFS, while a marvelous filesystem, is incredibly RAM > hungry. I suspect it's CPU profile is also non-trivial for a restricted > performance device. >
I'm not sure this is a huge hurdle. There already is a reduced-functionality ZFS implementation in grub, which is quite small. Remember, most of the extreme performance features of ZFS would not necessarily be needed in an embedded system. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
