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Date:	Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:57:34 +0200
From:	Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@...nkenlights.ch>
To:	"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@....utfsm.cl>
Cc:	matthias.andree@....de, vonbrand@....utfsm.cl, ipso@...ppymail.ca,
	reiser@...esys.com, lkml@...productions.com, jeff@...zik.org,
	tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	reiserfs-list@...esys.com
Subject: Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view"
 expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]


> > Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with
> > Solaris... I think linux should do the same...
> 
> This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made
> filesystems.

s/I think linux should do the same/I think linux should include Reiser4/
 ;-)


> First question is if there are any restrictions (patent or otherwise) on
> doing this,

Quoting from
 http://it.sun.com/eventi/jc06/pdf/mi27_p5_poccia_virtualization.pdf

­> 47 ZFS patents added to CDDL patent commons

But i'd rather like to see a Linux version of WAFL :-)

ZFS didn't really impress me: 
The Volume-Manager is nice but the Filesystem.. well: It beats UFS .. sometimes ;-)

See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt

A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark'



Regards,
 Adrian
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