ZFS

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:26:34PM +0200, Michael Reifenberger wrote..
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, David Schultz wrote:
> ...
> >Anyway, out of all the features of ZFS, support for 128-bit block
> >numbers is among the least interesting, both from an engineering
> >perspective and from the user's perspective.  I don't know why
> >everyone is so eager to discuss them.  Much more interesting, for
> >instance, is the pooled storage model for volume management.
> >(Basically, you tell the system, ``I have a bunch of disks with
> >similar QoS characteristics, and I want N filesystems on top of
> >them.''  ZFS then dynamically shares the pool of storage among the
> >filesystems.  It's amazing how much trouble this saves.)
> >
> 
> Sounds like ADVFS on OSF/ALPHA...
> Was nice to work with.

Still is.  AdvFS is in Tru64/TruCluster. It is the clusterfs for
TruClusters.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org