linux-kernel - Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

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Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:53:23 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>
cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	"David R. Litwin" <presently42@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea


On Apr 14 2007 10:04, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
> ZFS does have some powerful features but much of it depends on their
> broken layering of volume management.  Embedding the equivalent of LVM
> into a filesystem _feels_ quite wrong.
>
>[...]
>
> Unfortunately in order for Linux to incorporate such a feature I'd
> imagine a new filesystem would need to be developed with redirect on
> write at its core.  Can't really see ext4 or any other existing Linux
> filesystem grafting such a feature into it.  But even though I can't
> see it; do others?

FUSE-based filesystems. (That said, might wanna try through
"ZFS-on-fuse" fs).


Jan
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