[geeks] Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris bits to be in next version of OSX

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 18:31, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> >> I'm not familiar with ZFS.  What does it give you besides giant
> >> filesystem/file sizes?  Does it have metadata/data journaling?
> >> Verzioning?  How hard is it to port?
> >
> > It's a combined volume manager and filesystem.
> 
> And people keep acting like this is a good thing.  How many other
> abstraction barriers can we violate?

You know, I came across a blog post from a guy at Sun discussing exactly
this:

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/yglee#enter_raid_z

YMMV, etc.

-P

I can say that I have been using ZFS for a few months now and it works
OK.  Is it better than X's solution?  I don't know.