Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Richard, > > Friday, December 28, 2007, 9:48:53 PM, you wrote: > > RE> Sengor wrote: > >>> While on a VCS course on a Symantec site, I was told VxVM is planned >>> to be open sourced some time in near future. In either case the cost >>> is a large factor here, VxVM does not come cheap (unless you use VxSF >>> Basic http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=sfbasic which >>> is free). >>> > > RE> VxVM has far fewer features than ZFS, you really can't compare them. > RE> You could compare VxVM to SVM more directly. > > I can't agree. VxVM + VxFS vs. ZFS is a good comparison. >
I was being very specific. Even if VxVM is open sourced, you should compare ZFS to VxVM+VxFS, not VxVM only. > One good feature in VxVM/VxFS is an ability to shrink a "pool" or > change RAID on-the-fly. Then you can change speed of resilvering or > even freeze it if you want. Hot spare support is probably still better > (I haven't looked at latest improvements in ZFS yes). We're not there yet. > > Correct. Warts. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss