Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Csanady wrote:

<very well-thought-out post in re ZFS. Thanks!>

I'd only add that porting one or more 'foreign' fs in general seem to be a good 
idea - it is bound to show up things not yet covered well.

In all of the published comparison tests, I have never seen a single 'always 
best' fs anyway.

Pre ZFS,though, JFS and XFS were consistently 'nearly always in the top 3' - IOW 
pretty good all-around *compromises*.

And therein lies the rub:  One man's needs for optiization differ from the next.

But one thing *for sure* NFS and SMBFS and others (TVFS, Andrew...) have 
'problems' of one sort or another.

So *anything* that makes for a better shared storage - even if it must rely on 
nothing slower than gig-E or 10-Gig-E to be at its best, is a plus.

. ...shared multi-host SCSI RAID controllers being rudely rare and expensive...

;-)

Bill