Re: More questions about ZFS... / was: Re: ZFS vs. Solaris patches...

From: Scott Howard (scott_at_hunterlink.net.au)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 10:51:30 GMT

Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org> wrote:
>> No idea if this is on the ZFS radar (if it is I'd suspect there's a lot
>> of things on the roadmap in front of it), but Sun does have a product for
>> doing exactly this today - QFS.
>
> ... which leads directly to the question: Will QFS be supported in the
> next five years in Solaris once ZFS becomes available ?

I haven't seen the roadmaps for either ZFS or QFS, but I'd strongly suspect
that neither of them are going to replace the other.

QFS has a lot of features which ZFS doesn't have either today or in the
near future (if ever) - from multiple-host writer, to (when combined with
it's "sister" filesystem SAM-FS) HFS support.

But hey, 5 years is a long time - maybe QFS will replace ZFS within that
time :)

  Scott.

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