A bit of that and the other
in need of a universal filesystem
Yesterday i got playing more and more with brandz and seems like i am going to tottaly remove the native linux install from the home network. But there is a catch 22, since linux was acting as my fileserver, i wanted to move my sharing capacity to zfs. The only way i can do it is backup my few hundered gigs to something (i knew a needed a tape device) scrap the filesystem and create a zfs raidz2. Surely there must be another way but it probably way early for me to think ( need more coffee). But got me thinking how superior it would be to have a universal file system that you could read/write natively. For example zfspool you boot your solaris do operations, boot linux and write *natively* to the same filesystem and maybe even windows. I just had this vision with our x4500, customer xy installs windows or linux and has 20TB's 10 months down the line he grows and he wants to move for whatever reason to another OS, he is locked to whatever filesystem he used before and has to go to samba/cifs ways. After the coffee if i have time i need to check the status of the zfs ports.
Posted at 09:05πμ Δεκ 11, 2006 by Ioannis Psyllas in Sun | Comments[0]
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