On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:19:18 -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: : anyway, my point is that i didn't think COW was in and of itself a feature : a home or SOHO user would really care about. it's more an implementation : detail of zfs than a feature. i'm sure this is arguable.
I'm really not sure I agree with you given the way you've put it. Yes, the average user doesn't give a damn whether his filesystem is copy-on-write, journalled, or none of the above if you ask him. Your average user *does* care, however, when faced with the consequences, and *will* complain when things break. CoW does appear to have some distinct advantages over other methods when faced with the unreliable hardware we all have to deal with these days. When software makes it better, everybody wins. Now all I need is a T2000 that behaves correctly rather than a T2000 that behaves as if it's missing the magic in /etc/system that it has... -- Dickon Hood Due to digital rights management, my .sig is temporarily unavailable. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience in the meantime. No virus was found in this outgoing message as I didn't bother looking. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
