From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751672AbXDOM6O (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:58:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752063AbXDOM6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:58:13 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58939 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbXDOM6N (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:58:13 -0400 To: Neil Brown Cc: "David R. Litwin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea References: <17952.5537.364603.419364@notabene.brown> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:56:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <17952.5537.364603.419364@notabene.brown> (Neil Brown's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:43:29 +1000") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Brown writes: > What, specifically, is there in ZFS that you want to use in Linux? > There is lots of interesting stuff in there, but which bit has caught > your attention? It is possible that that functionality can be > incorporated into Linux without trying to clone or copy ZFS. Filesystem block hashes (checksums) and in-fs redundancy (using the hashes to determine which copy of data is correct in case of corruption). It would mean multi-device filesystem. -- Krzysztof Halasa