Re: Sun ZFS vs. Oracle ASM

From: Will Hartung (willh_at_msoft.com)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:40:59 -0800

"Casper H.S. ***" <Casper.***@Sun.COM> wrote in message
news:41f09d5a$0$6206$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Vikas Agnihotri <usenet@vikas.mailshell.com> writes:
>
> >Cant ZFS be configured to do data redundancy and striping i.e. RAID type
> >features? Surely it can? Why would Sun design a new filesystem in 2004
> >from scratch and leave out these features? What if a single drive in a
> >20-drive ZFS storage pool dies? All the filesystems based on the pool
> >are unusable? Surely not
>
>
> ZFS can do all what the combination of traditinal volume managers
> and filesystems can do both. (this includes therefor mirroring, striping,
> and such)

I can safely say the ZFS is the Solaris 10 bullet point that I'm most
looking forward too. The fact that someone has essentially "re-thought" the
filesystem from the ground up, added all of the "value add" features that
are scattered hither and yon across implementations, and concentrated on
making the whole kit and kaboodle easy to manage, and THEY'RE GIVING IT
AWAY!...I'm just all tingly.

Striping, Journaling, Snapshots, OH MY! I'm not an admin with 80TB of data
to manage for 1000 users, just a lowly developer wanting something a little
better for my mundane Ultra 10.

Just giddy. I can barely contain myself.

How would you compare a Sol 10 box with ZFS to something like a NetApp?

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)