Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:18:19 +0800 (CST), "Andrew Wang" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a >> good file system. > >Yes, a very GOOD question, considering: > >REISER4 - THE BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. shut it p

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-01 Thread lkml777
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Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-01 Thread lkml777
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:18:19 +0800 (CST), "Andrew Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a > good file system. Yes, a very GOOD question, considering: REISER4 - THE BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. You can read more here: http://linuxhelp.150m.com/resources/fs

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-01 Thread Xu CanHao
2007/5/2, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:17:14PM +0800, Xu CanHao wrote: > Reiser4 may lack some core function, but ZFS on Solaris is as > functional as ext3 on Linux(or even more). So compare Reiser4 with > ZFS may be inappropriate. Functional, but it's a new files

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:17:14PM +0800, Xu CanHao wrote: > Reiser4 may lack some core function, but ZFS on Solaris is as > functional as ext3 on Linux(or even more). So compare Reiser4 with > ZFS may be inappropriate. Functional, but it's a new filesystem with not as much time-tested experience

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-01 Thread Xu CanHao
On Apr 30, 7:50 am, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most of the people who have been cheerleading for either ZFS or Reiser4 don't seme to have the necessary technical skills, alas. - Ted Reiser4 may lack some core function, but ZFS on Solaris is

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-30 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Reiser4 doesn't appear to work anywhere except with Linux AFAICT, and > being able to move storage between operating systems sure looks > interesting... Not very, actually, unless you're thinking about "portable" devices which use things like FAT16 fo

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-30 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Andrew Wang wrote: > ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a > good file system. > > Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while > ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? Reiser4 doesn't appear to work anywhere except with Linux AFAICT, and being able t

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-29 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The people who want ZFS have in mind certain features, such as the >ability to scale to very large sizes, and ease of use when >administering filesystems that span multiple disks (ZFS subsumes the >device-mapper/RAID layer in Solaris, so th

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:18:19AM +0800, Andrew Wang wrote: > ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a > good file system. > > Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while > ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? The people who want ZFS have in mind certain features, such as

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Wang wrote: > ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a > good file system. > > Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while > ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? Please take your content-free cheerleading to the local grade school football game. Jeff - T

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 30 2007 02:18, Andrew Wang wrote: > >ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a >good file system. > >Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while >ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? Do we? >I know that ReiserFS4 breaks Linux coding standards. >However, even if Sun

Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew Wang
ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a good file system. Why do we want Sun to release ZFS under GPL, while ReiserFS4 is already available under GPL!? I know that ReiserFS4 breaks Linux coding standards. However, even if Sun releases ZFS under GPL, we still need to port it to the Lin