Hello Peter, Thursday, October 20, 2005, 11:48:49 PM, you wrote:
PT> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 06:20, Dan Price wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to propose the creation of a community for technologies related >> to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). >> >> Don't get too excited-- ZFS hasn't finished the spin cycle in the >> machine just yet; and no, I can't say when that will happen. But it >> would be good to have a community, and especially a mailing list ready >> for the day it does become available. ZFS (the Zettabyte File System) >> is Sun's next generation filesystem, aimed at providing unparalleled >> data integrity and scalability under a simplified administration model. PT> I'm all for it, but: PT> If it's that simple, why does it need a separate community? PT> One of the fundamental aims of zfs is that it should "just work". PT> (And by and large my experience supports that.) If it succeeds, what PT> will there be to talk about? PT> I know that my own hope is that zfs will become essentially invisible PT> (unlike things like svm and ufs, which need constant looking at), PT> and that the real interest is not in ZFS but the higher level services PT> that you can layer on top of it. (Which, in a sense, argues for the PT> wider scope of a Data and Storage Management community.) I would love for example other compression algorithms implemented - that's probably good project for community. Other guys would be probably happy with different kinds of encryption, other with some performance improvement, etc... -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
