[rescue] FW: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed May 7 14:16:26 CDT 2008


Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 11:17:15 -0400
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> No ZFS in NetBSD yet. And I will not hold my breath waiting for it.
>> Isn't the FreeBSD ZFS code approaching production-quality?
> FreeBSD != NetBSD. IIRC the last year GSoC ZFS for NetBSD project got as far as a mostly working ZVol layer and will be continued this year.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No, but architecturally, it's closer than Linux or Solaris are.  It 
wouldn't surprise me if some of the work could be leveraged.

>>> On the other side: The soon to be branched 5.0 will have good, old,
>>> rock solid FFS with shining new jornaling support...
>> Just for metadata or for data too?
> Metadata only. See:
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2008/03/02/msg000504.html
> 
> If you need data-journaling LFS would be the better route.

But then LFS doesn't have metadata journaling, does it?  And is LFS (as 
of 4.0) now ready for prime-time?

Peace...  Sridhar



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