Richard Elling wrote: > 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. >
Well, it would be really nice if an open filesystem was adopted on such devices. I'm guessing, but I would suspect exFAT (a.k.a. FAT64) which is the only current contender, isn't open. -- Andrew _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
