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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. Re:cool.. by mnmn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I cant wait to see it in BSD. Linux would be cool too, but it already has XFS, ReiserFS and other advanced filesystems. I'm not even sure if theyre in the same class of filesystems. I just feel like in a corner with BSD's currently limited selection.

    Sometime in the future we'll have one kernel, where we can swap in and out any driver, scheduler, filesystem, device etc from Linux, BSD or Solaris, and compile it as a monolith or micro kernel.

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  2. Re:I'm astounded by hritcu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ZFS - the best filesystem ever devised.
    Is ZFS better then Reiser4?

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  3. Re:Newness? Reliability? by AndrewStephens · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Er, did you read the article the same article that I did? The filesystem apparently supports transactions both for file contents and filesystem structures. They are bragging that they have simulated crashing the computer over a million times without corruption. Sounds like they have it covered.

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  4. Re:Newness? Reliability? by Tpenta · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dan Price has just put up a new screeen cast demoing trashing one side of the mirror without harming the contents. It's at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/ selfheal

    Tp.

  5. Re:Impressive by illumin8 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hehe... Funny that you would post the one comment that was sort of ... "meh..." ... in a Sun discussion.

    Have you played with Sol10/ZFS yet? I just got a new job and I've just convinced the CIO to purchase a bunch of X2100/4100s... w00t!

    Anyway, they were set to make HP with Redhat the corporate standard but HP came in at 2x the price!

    I hope this works out... cross whatever you've got two of for me...

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