[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

Dan Duncan danduncan at gmail.com
Sat May 8 02:34:13 CDT 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Mark Brown <sunrescue at marknmel.com> wrote:
> Agreed Linux is fine as a general purpose server, but without a filesystem
> like ZFS, it's still in the dark ages.
>
> Linux really lacks a great filesystem and volume management, imo.
>
> Had Sun releasesed ZFS as GPL.... I may have become a penguin fanboy.

HP released TRU64's AdvFS filesystem as GPL in 2008.  I'd love to see
someone port that.  It was doing all the shiny new ZFS bells and
whistles in 1993.


-- 
Dan Duncan



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