Robert Milkowski wrote:
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...
Based on the feedback provided, I am going to go ahead and set up the
ZFS community.
Derek
--
Derek Cicero
Program Manager
Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
