Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:26:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Michael Reifenberger <mike@Reifenberger.com> To: David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Message-ID: <20040916222403.B7226@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <20040916194526.GA3364@VARK.homeunix.com> References: <41483C97.2030303@fer.hr> <Pine.LNX.4.60.0409151047230.21034@athena> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161010020.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409161528520.29724@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20040916151216.GB29643@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <1095355201.530.14.camel@localhost> <20040916194526.GA3364@VARK.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, David Schultz wrote:
...
> Anyway, out of all the features of ZFS, support for 128-bit block
> numbers is among the least interesting, both from an engineering
> perspective and from the user's perspective. I don't know why
> everyone is so eager to discuss them. Much more interesting, for
> instance, is the pooled storage model for volume management.
> (Basically, you tell the system, ``I have a bunch of disks with
> similar QoS characteristics, and I want N filesystems on top of
> them.'' ZFS then dynamically shares the pool of storage among the
> filesystems. It's amazing how much trouble this saves.)
>
Sounds like ADVFS on OSF/ALPHA...
Was nice to work with.
Bye/2
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