Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:57:34 +0200 | From | Adrian Ulrich <> | Subject | Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion] |
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> > Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with > > Solaris... I think linux should do the same... > > This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made > filesystems.
s/I think linux should do the same/I think linux should include Reiser4/ ;-)
> First question is if there are any restrictions (patent or otherwise) on > doing this,
Quoting from http://it.sun.com/eventi/jc06/pdf/mi27_p5_poccia_virtualization.pdf
> 47 ZFS patents added to CDDL patent commons
But i'd rather like to see a Linux version of WAFL :-)
ZFS didn't really impress me: The Volume-Manager is nice but the Filesystem.. well: It beats UFS .. sometimes ;-)
See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt
A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark'
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