comments on todays ZFS announcement ? comparison to UFS2 on 6.0 ?

[Julian Elischer]

user wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I found this announcement today - apparently ZFS is now available as a
>production item:
>
>http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/
>
>Can anyone take some time and do some quick feedback on it and compare and
>contrast it to UFS 2 in its 6.0-RELEASE incarnation ?
>
>Mainly I am curious - if an application has no ties or dependency on
>FreeBSD (or any other OS), is ZFS going to be the no-brainer, obvious
>choice ?
>
>I am not sure if ZFS snapshots survive reboots (solaris 9 snapshots did
>not), and I am fairly certain you cannot boot a ZFS device.  Also, it
>looks like a very complex filesystem.
>  
>
looks cool.. the uberblock must run red hot though unless htey have some 
way of moving it around.
more detail would be needed.. Wonder if there is a paper on it..

>But I am just a layman - can any of the very technical people here shed
>some light/thoughts/bigotries on ZFS, and ZFS vs. UFS2 ?
>
>Thanks.
>
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