[geeks] What happened to ZFS ?

[Scott Howard]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:34:25AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > Does anyone know what happened to ZFS, which is/was supposed to be the 
> > be-all and end-all of cool filesystems for Solaris?
> > Even blogs.sun.com doesn't have any entries more recent than 2004, aside 
> > from an author talking about how his forthcoming Sun book will cover ZFS ...
> 
> It's still in beta testing.  They want to make sure They Get It Right (tm)
> before public release.

Yup.. it's still coming - getting more stable and more feature-rich every
week.

Being a filesystem is critical that it's _perfect_ before it ships.  If
you ship an OS that has a few bugs then people will forgive you - even
if the bugs cause the OS to occasionally crash. As long as you get a patch
out soonish people will get over it.

But if you release a filesystem with even a single bug that causes you
to blow peoples data away, then they will never forgive you!

Of course, Marketing don't seem to consider things like this...

  Scott