Re: what is our answer to ZFS?

[Alfred Brons <alfredbrons@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Paulo!
I wasn't aware of this thread.

But my question was: do we have similar functionality
in Linux kernel?

Taking in account ZFS availability as 100% open
source, I'm starting think about migration to Nexenta
OS some of my servers just because of this feature...

Alfred

--- Paulo Jorge Matos <pocmatos@gmail.com> wrote:

> Check Tarkan "Sun ZFS and Linux" topic on 18th Nov, 
> on this mailing list.
>
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113235728212352&w=2
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paulo Matos
> 
> On 21/11/05, Alfred Brons <alfredbrons@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just noticed in the news this link:
> >
> >
>
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/basics
> >
> > I wonder what would be our respond to this beaste?
> >
> > btw, you could try it live by using Nexenta
> > GNU/Solaris LiveCD at
> > http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Download which is
> > Ubuntu-based OpenSolaris
> > distribution.
> >
> > So what is ZFS?
> >
> > ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides
> simple
> > administration, transactional semantics,
> end-to-end
> > data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is
> not an
> > incremental improvement to existing technology; it
> is
> > a fundamentally new approach to data management.
> We've
> > blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions,
> > eliminated complexity at the source, and created a
> > storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.
> >
> > ZFS presents a pooled storage model that
> completely
> > eliminates the concept of volumes and the
> associated
> > problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted
> bandwidth
> > and stranded storage. Thousands of filesystems can
> > draw from a common storage pool, each one
> consuming
> > only as much space as it actually needs.
> >
> > All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so
> the
> > on-disk state is always valid. There is no need to
> > fsck(1M) a ZFS filesystem, ever. Every block is
> > checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and
> the
> > data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or
> RAID)
> > configurations.
> >
> > ZFS provides unlimited constant-time snapshots and
> > clones. A snapshot is a read-only point-in-time
> copy
> > of a filesystem, while a clone is a writable copy
> of a
> > snapshot. Clones provide an extremely
> space-efficient
> > way to store many copies of mostly-shared data
> such as
> > workspaces, software installations, and diskless
> > clients.
> >
> > ZFS administration is both simple and powerful.
> The
> > tools are designed from the ground up to eliminate
> all
> > the traditional headaches relating to managing
> > filesystems. Storage can be added, disks replaced,
> and
> > data scrubbed with straightforward commands.
> > Filesystems can be created instantaneously,
> snapshots
> > and clones taken, native backups made, and a
> > simplified property mechanism allows for setting
> of
> > quotas, reservations, compression, and more.
> >
> > Alfred
> >
> >
> >
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