[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery@ece.cmu.edu
Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:25:42 -0400


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On 9/30/10 12:53 , Vincent Fox wrote:
> It makes me sad that Oracle bought Sun, where it will probably wither.
> If IBM had bought Sun I would have more hope of a good filesystem
> for MacOS, Linux, etc.  in the near term.  ZFS has been stable and
> in production for years now.  I like btrfs but it is years from
> being ready for terabytes of production data.

In my dream world, someone with resources would buy ZFS from Oracle and keep
it usable for everyone else.  Sadly, ZFS is probably 90% of *why* Oracle
bought Sun, which bodes ill for anyone else trying to use it.  :(

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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