A video of guys showing off features of ZFS with USB sticks is available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1zw8V8g5eT0 There's an english translation available for that somewhere. ZFS can do a lot of things with ease that other file systems either can't, or it takes quite an effort.
Perhaps it has to do with the assumption of this particle having some god-like properties. The Wikipedia article says it was mentioned in the movie "Solaris". Anyone remember what this particle did in the movie?
Sun's foray into more traditional processor designs - the Rock - isn't expected to ship until 2008 and will feature only four cores. Wrong! Rock has 16 cores. Read http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20070410
The single die - four cores processor architecture from AMD could be a result of their collaboration with Sun which already has 8 cores in a single die general purpose processor UltraSparc T1 for more than a year. It's surprising though that the two chip makers, Intel and AMD, still lag behind Sun in terms of cores per die.
I often wonder if the slow pace of research on Solar cells/energy isn't a conspiracy by the Oil-and-other-expensive-fuel-energy giants. There's so much to gain by harnessing the energy from Sun.
"ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.
ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted bandwidth and stranded storage. Thousands of filesystems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all devices in the pool is available to all filesystems at all times.
All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so the on-disk state is always valid. There is no need to fsck(1M) a ZFS filesystem, ever. Every block is checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and the data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or RAID) configurations. If one copy is damaged, ZFS will detect it and use another copy to repair it."
could be on the way to make NetApp solutions irrelevant in the future. Why pay $$$ when you can get something that does the same thing and much more and that is free? ZFS is showing a lot of promise.
It could well be a revolutionary technology in the display market in many years! With displays able to bend, all possibilities open up in gadgets and even laptop markets with smaller and more capable display units.
over Linux and now it enjoys more developers writing apps for it. Linux ends up playing catch up act. Unless Linux gets some 'killer end-user features' that are easy to use, not available in Windows, are simply disruptive in the PC market and vendors are compelled to sell it, it can't hope to surpass the popularity of Windows anytime soon in the PC market. This is understandable as Linux started off trying to emulate Unix which is a more geek-ish OS. It is good at webservers though.
...my ISP realized those long names interspersed with hyphens have made me not use any of the emails provided. In contrast I have a simple and easy to type address on the webmail accounts.
"Clearly, this failure doesn't reflect well on (Cisco) and at the very least highlights the need for two vendors," states CIBC analyst Ittai Kidron in the report. Yeah, don't keep all your routers in Cisco basket.
Firefox has unfortunately become a memory hog. It often becomes unresponsive and almost everyday it's been crashing. Fortunately, it now has that continue from last session option which has saved my sessions many times. Firefox is still my default browser in all the systems I use. Opera is the 2nd choice.
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Found the dubbed english version of the video. This would more interesting for those who don't know German:2 979626078
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=810080844
A video of guys showing off features of ZFS with USB sticks is available at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1zw8V8g5eT0
There's an english translation available for that somewhere.
ZFS can do a lot of things with ease that other file systems either can't, or it takes quite an effort.
Perhaps it has to do with the assumption of this particle having some god-like properties.
The Wikipedia article says it was mentioned in the movie "Solaris". Anyone remember what this particle did in the movie?
What is this third pipe? What are the other two?
is getting hackneyed. Anyway, what a for-profit corporation does with its partners can't destroy the 'spirit of GPL.'
The single die - four cores processor architecture from AMD could be a result of their collaboration with Sun which already has 8 cores in a single die general purpose processor UltraSparc T1 for more than a year. It's surprising though that the two chip makers, Intel and AMD, still lag behind Sun in terms of cores per die.
I'm trying to find a possible practical use of this research but can't think of any. Maybe in finding the vaccine for common cold?
True. Also, a program expanded in functionalities to do more tasks than it was initially designed for is a major source of software bugs.
I often wonder if the slow pace of research on Solar cells/energy isn't a conspiracy by the Oil-and-other-expensive-fuel-energy giants.
There's so much to gain by harnessing the energy from Sun.
Though a bit premature, it's an indication Blu-ray format is going to win over HD-DVD.
From ZFS link in Opensolaris.org :
"ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We've blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, eliminated complexity at the source, and created a storage system that's actually a pleasure to use.
ZFS presents a pooled storage model that completely eliminates the concept of volumes and the associated problems of partitions, provisioning, wasted bandwidth and stranded storage. Thousands of filesystems can draw from a common storage pool, each one consuming only as much space as it actually needs. The combined I/O bandwidth of all devices in the pool is available to all filesystems at all times.
All operations are copy-on-write transactions, so the on-disk state is always valid. There is no need to fsck(1M) a ZFS filesystem, ever. Every block is checksummed to prevent silent data corruption, and the data is self-healing in replicated (mirrored or RAID) configurations. If one copy is damaged, ZFS will detect it and use another copy to repair it."
could be on the way to make NetApp solutions irrelevant in the future. Why pay $$$ when you can get something that does the same thing and much more and that is free? ZFS is showing a lot of promise.
It could well be a revolutionary technology in the display market in many years! With displays able to bend, all possibilities open up in gadgets and even laptop markets with smaller and more capable display units.
The better value-for-money laptop should win. OLPC may be taking too long to get into production.
I hope blogger isn't that vulnerable! Perhaps Google is better at security than WP guys.
Is it a unique product users will find interesting, that Sling something? (writing comments so that part of story isn't showing up)
...lag behind Clicky which provide a better analytics service. But Feedburner is the RSS champ and Google would want to exploit it with Ads.
over Linux and now it enjoys more developers writing apps for it. Linux ends up playing catch up act. Unless Linux gets some 'killer end-user features' that are easy to use, not available in Windows, are simply disruptive in the PC market and vendors are compelled to sell it, it can't hope to surpass the popularity of Windows anytime soon in the PC market. This is understandable as Linux started off trying to emulate Unix which is a more geek-ish OS. It is good at webservers though.
...my ISP realized those long names interspersed with hyphens have made me not use any of the emails provided. In contrast I have a simple and easy to type address on the webmail accounts.
that the virus signature got lost in translation.
If it is illegal to translate, the Polish police was right in arresting the guilty.
Rather than blaming them, the law needs to be changed.
Firefox has unfortunately become a memory hog. It often becomes unresponsive and almost everyday it's been crashing. Fortunately, it now has that continue from last session option which has saved my sessions many times.
Firefox is still my default browser in all the systems I use. Opera is the 2nd choice.