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ZFS, the Last Word in File Systems?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-point-discussing-I-guess dept.

guigouz writes "Sun is carrying a feature story about its new ZFS File System - ZFS, the dynamic new file system in Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), will make you forget everything you thought you knew about file systems. ZFS will be available on all Solaris 10 OS-supported platforms, and all existing applications will run with it. Moreover, ZFS complements Sun's storage management portfolio, including the Sun StorEdge QFS software, which is ideal for sharing business data."

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  1. At the risk of appearing to be an idiot... by ewanrg · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Why would I want to use ZFS instead of Reiser4? Is there something fundamental I'm missing, or is the hype not affecting me properly?

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  2. There be Marketting here! by grasshoppa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great. A link to the marketting release. Wonderful.

    So, what we now know is this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. According to sun that is.

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  3. This is awesome news for the 5 people still using by MichaelPenne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Solaris! Woo hoo, whats next, new video abilities being added to Be?

  4. It is true. by Axe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gigabyte is 10^9 bytes. This is the freaking definition of "Giga".[br] (2^30) that you are thinking about is 1 Gibibyte.[br] Get your facts straight before spewing. If everybody is using kilobyte to mean 1024 it does not make that right. kilo is 1000, kibi is 1024. That's it, end of story.

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