John Sonnenschein wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ian Murdock wrote:
[snip]
> > Or short: IMO it would be nice to keep support for alternatives in
> > Solaris/OpenSolaris/Indiana alive...
> 
> I agree, in as far as I personally think ZFS should be the default,
> and we should build around that assumption while retaining the ability
> to choose other options, with feature degredation.
> 
> For example if we were to do a ZFS snapshot prior to upgrading or
> installing a package, that feature is obviously not available with
> other filesystems, but we shouldn't restrict ourselves to not doing it
> just because UFS is braindead technology

Erm, not that I was talking about _QFS_, not UFS...and QFS is in some
aspects even superiour to ZFS. IMO a stragegy which includes both
filesystems (ZFS+QFS) may be better than focussing on ZFS alone,
otherwise the weaker points of ZFS like high memory consumption
(remember embedded systems with restricted memory, a LiveCD or older
machines), bad NFS performance, additional CPU usage for
checksums+metadata compression or the lack of user quotas may quickly
become the archilles heel of the whole indiana project.

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Bye,
Roland

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