Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:34:23 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will XFS be adopted Message-ID: <20081117053423.GA58892@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20081117050441.GA16855@ourbrains.org> References: <20081109174303.GA5146@ourbrains.org> <20081109184349.GG51239@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4920D879.3070806@jrv.org> <20081117050441.GA16855@ourbrains.org>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:04:41AM -0500, Dan wrote: > James R. Van Artsdalen(james-freebsd-fs2@jrv.org)@2008.11.16 20:35:37 -06= 00: > > ZFS has limitations. > >=20 > > It is not appropriate for "appliance" applications such as the Soekris > > boxes does due to memory consumption. > YES! In my opinion it's not even appropriate for a machine with 2GB of > RAM. Why waste so much RAM on an FS? Does anyone know? Or is this some > sort of conspiracy to sell more bgger boxes. It's Sun, afterall.... >=20 > > BTRFS will be another filesystem to watch. Perhaps foreign filesystems > > could be supported out of ports. But the fundamental limitation, as was > > said, is that someone has to care enough to do the port. >=20 > What kinda bugs me is why FreeBSD hasn't adopted a nice journaling FS > until now. Look at Linux - Reiser, EXT3 and XFS/JFS have been in it for > years. What gives with FreeBSD? Someone needs to actually write one. We don't have all that many file syst= em experts and even a pretty basic file system is a huge undertaking. -- Brooks --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJIQJfXY6L6fI4GtQRAlbzAJ43x7SG6+m6lkcPmtpLV89ULOPxgACgjxBX h6YE90kmLqmzV5eq9ePKt6I= =reBl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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