On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, seph wrote: > Adam Levin <[email protected]> writes: > >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>> You seem to perceive ZFS as a less mature product. >> I absolutely do -- less mature than NetApp and EMC. > > It sounds like you're comparing the maturity of a product to the age of > a company. NetApp and EMC release new products all the time. Some have > new code bases, some have new hardware, all have bugs that need shaking > out. Not to mention acquisitions...
Not really. It's actually difficult to talk about something like ZFS, because it's hard to really qualify what it actually is. WAFL is a very mature filesystem at this point. So is EXT3. NetApp is always improving OnTAP (though not fast enough for my liking), so yes, there are going to be bugs in everything, but even with changes like OnTAP 8 (and *finally* beginning to integrate the Spinnaker code) they are still building on something that's quite stable to begin with. Yes, ZFS has been around for years now and as a filesystem it sounds like it's quite stable at this point, but from my perspective there has definitely been some rocky ground with Oracle's acquisition of Sun and the uncertainty there. There is also a huge customer base of NetApp and EMC, and the experience of those companies with solution architecture and global support. ZFS is still up-and-coming. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
