I have no idea about cluster resources, but here are some of my favorate bullet points on ZFS:
* Copy-On-Write filesystem, which basically means it's built-in snapshot support, where every file is written into unused, or the oldest copy's space. NTFS has VSS which allows for older snapshots, but this is native to the FS. This also makes deletes and re-writes faster. * Block-Level Checksumming and RAID. Each block of the drive has a checksum which is checked when read. So the FS knows if the data is corrupt, it won't just pass the incorrect data to the operating system as garbage. Using its' RAID-Z, (which, as far as my understanding takes it is Raid 5 on the Block level vs the disk level) it can then do self correction of a damaged block, by retreiving the copy of the block from elsewhere (also checked against checksum). There's more, but that's what I can remember at this hour. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:49:14 -0700 Subject: RE: OT: OpenSolaris > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] > Sent: Monday, 9 March 2009 3:48 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: OpenSolaris > > > ZFS is a killer app, btw. If I were running Microsoft, I'd buy > > Sun just for the ZFS, and implement it into Windows. > > (Would never happen, of course) > > I'm curious to know what's in ZFS that you'd like to see in NTFS? > > I was under the impression it couldn't be used as a cluster resource, which > is probably a strike against it (but that might have been older versions) > > Cheers > Ken > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
