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

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Date:	Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:56:40 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	"David R. Litwin" <presently42@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> writes:

> What, specifically, is there in ZFS that you want to use in Linux?
> There is lots of interesting stuff in there, but which bit has caught
> your attention?  It is possible that that functionality can be
> incorporated into Linux without trying to clone or copy ZFS.

Filesystem block hashes (checksums) and in-fs redundancy (using the
hashes to determine which copy of data is correct in case of
corruption). It would mean multi-device filesystem.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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