Re: hardware raid solutions?

Eric S. Johansson wrote:

Despite http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html, I
don't think ZFS is available for linux :(

But if you can wait a few months...

http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/2006/05/announcing-zfs-on-fuselinux.html

I just read up about that and baby oh baby, does that looks sweet. if
I'm seeing what I think I'm seeing, it is a good chance we can eliminate
mdX and maybe, just maybe eliminate LVM.

I may just take a bunch of crappy discs from the basement and a Pentium
II I have lying around and test this puppy with some sort of exercising
tool.

the big question would be how to partition an existing system so that
you could boot, get the right configuration files and then start
working. It will definitely take some planning.


Is it just me, or does ZFS just sound too good to be true?

From the opensolaris site:

"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."

Doesn't that just sound like a scam? I keep waiting to hear what the
downside is... or maybe I've just been in this business too long and
have gotten burned too many times...

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