[BBLISA] 10+ TB RAID experiences?

Jeff Wasilko jeffw at smoe.org
Wed Aug 22 12:56:51 EDT 2007


On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:52:56PM -0400, Arthur Gaer wrote:
> My understanding--from a few years ago--was that NetApp's filesystem  
> snapshot facility was something of a side-effect of NetApp's  
> propriety WAFL file system/implementation and that it would be quite  
> difficult for another filesystem to provide the same types of snapshots.
> 
> Perhaps the technology of other vendors/filesystems has changed in  
> the intervening years, however.

ZFS from Sun gets you pretty much everything that Netapp has
(filesystem-wise), and more.

Check out:

http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/




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