grand-dad, why don't you put your immense experience and knowledge to contribute to what is going to be the next and only filesystems in modern operating systems, instead of spending your time asking for "specifics" and treating everyone of "ignorant"..at least we will remember you in the after life as being a major contributor to zfs success.
Considering that you have never been considered by anyone until now (excpet your dog?)...who has ever heard of you ?? have you ever published anything worth reading? give us some of you mighty accomplishements. remember now it's about opensourcing, reducing complexity and cost...keep the old propriatery things in DEC's drawers and bring us real ideas s- On Dec 9, 2007 4:32 AM, can you guess? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > can you run a database on RMS? > > As well as you could on must Unix file systems. And you've been able to do > so for almost three decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and > direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix environment). > > > I guess its not suited > > And you guess wrong: that's what happens when you speak from ignorance > rather than from something more substantial. > > > we are already trying to get ride of a 15 years old > > filesystem called > > wafl, > > Whatever for? Please be specific about exactly what you expect will work > better with whatever you're planning to replace it with - and why you expect > it to be anywhere nearly as solid. > > and a 10 years old "file system" called > > Centera, > > My, you must have been one of the *very* early adopters, since EMC launched > it only 5 1/2 years ago. > > so do you thing > > we are going to consider a 35 years old filesystem > > now... computer > > science made a lot of improvement since > > Well yes, and no. For example, most Unix platforms are still struggling to > match the features which VMS clusters had over two decades ago: when you > start as far behind as Unix did, even continual advances may still not be > enough to match such 'old' technology. > > Not that anyone was suggesting that you replace your current environment with > RMS: if it's your data, knock yourself out using whatever you feel like > using. On the other hand, if someone else is entrusting you with *their* > data, they might be better off looking for someone with more experience and > sense. > > > - bill > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Blog: http://fakoli.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
