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Sun Releases ZFS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-can't-beat-the-circular-filing-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun's engineers have been blogging today that Sun has finally released its next generation filesystem, ZFS today by pushing out the "community" (i.e. testing) build 27 of OpenSolaris in source and binary form. There is also documentation and a a source code tour available on their site."

5 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. ZFS with DTrace are serious arguments for Solaris by kompiluj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    About two years ago Solaris seemed doomed. Linux with the advent of 2.6 kernel started to be a real enterprise level contender. Now with ZFS and DTrace Solaris (and Open Source licencse) looks to be a real contender.

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  2. I'm astounded by turgid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is incredibly good news for Sun, and yet another astounding achievement this year.

    They open-sourced Solaris (despite the whinging of the nay-sayers and accusations of being in bed with SCO^H^H^HCaldera), they sell Opteron workstations and servers running 64-bit Solaris, 8-core 32-thread Niagara (aka UltraSPARC T1) came out early (the first Sun processor to do so this decade) and now they've pushed out ZFS - the best filesystem ever devised.

    If only they can get Project Janus integrated and out in the open...

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  3. Linux by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's good that Solaris is heating up again. Linux has this "OS for all seasons" thing going on, and needs healthy competitors in all of its areas of utility to keep things real. Competition is GOD in the software and computer hardware world -- even in the OSS world where competition and collaboration run hand in hand.

  4. Why the hell isn't this on the front page?!?! by mungtor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sun releases a staggeringly cool file system, and nobody knows about it.

    Only 25 comments too. Apparently there is a definite audience to cater to now rather than providing actual news. Mustn't frighten the linux weenies. *sigh* /. really sucks sometimes.

  5. Re:cool.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What nonsense. Have you ever even compiled a kernel?

    Do you realise how long the HURD guys have been trying to get just one microkernel running flexibly and effectively? (allbeit a highly ambitious one...)

    The only way to do what you describe would be to abstract everything to the degree that all your runtime dissappears into maintaining that abstraction. Oh, wait, I already mentioned HURD didn't I? ;-)