[BBLISA] ZFS Anyone?

[Tom Metro]

Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> +1!  At work we spent a lot of effort making a NAS appliance out of
> OpenSolaris and ZFS, and we had to continuously fight with Solaris.
> 
> I very much look forward to linux+zfs.

It's a tad down-scale from what has been discussed in this thread, but 
has anyone tried FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org/)? It supposedly now 
comes with ZFS thanks to its FreeBSD parent, which has a license 
compatible with the license ZFS is released under.


A recent episode of the "FLOSS Weekly" podcast (hosted by Randal 
Schwartz) interviewed a couple of Sun employees responsible for ZFS:
http://twit.tv/floss58

They mentioned the SSD caching (mentioned earlier in this thread), and 
the rumors that ZFS might be included in the next OS X release.

They also mentioned Nexenta Systems (http://www.nexenta.com/) which 
sells both appliances and software to create enterprise scale NAS filers 
using ZFS.

  -Tom

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