Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 May 2007 01:04:32 +0800 | From | "Xu CanHao" <> | Subject | Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !? |
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2007/5/2, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:17:14PM +0800, Xu CanHao wrote: > > Reiser4 may lack some core function, but ZFS on Solaris is as > > functional as ext3 on Linux(or even more). So compare Reiser4 with > > ZFS may be inappropriate. > > Functional, but it's a new filesystem with not as much time-tested > experience in the field. Many Solaris system administrators are > electing to wait rather than immediately press it into service for > critical servers, electing to use Solaris's UFS instead. I've heard a > few problems with ZFS recovering from data corruption, but not enough > to know whether it is a general trend (not that I track that kind of > stuff). As a rule, enterprise system administrators that run PO > servers for thousands of users as a time are extremely conservative, > and for good reason. > > Of course, there's a big difference between those folks and people > using ZFS for their own personal development. > > - Ted > On May 1, 1:50 am, Theodore Tso <t...@mit.edu> wrote: > > In general, yes, ext4 development has been a little slow; part of the > problem is that we have a lot of people, but a number of folks are new > and their patches need review before they are ready for upstream > acceptance, and a number of other folks who should be doing the review > have been overloaded with multiple other projects and have been > time-sharing.
It is predictable that ext4 needs a loooong time to be enterprise-ready ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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