Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 14:52 UTC, submitted by Oliver
Matthew Dillon writes: "I am going to start committing bits and pieces of the HAMMER filesystem over the next two months. Note that the filesystem will not be operational until we get closer to the 2.0 release in December so these bits and pieces will not be tied into buildworld/buildkernel until then." Features: maximum size of half an exabyte, infinite snapshots, limited only by retention policy, streaming backups, asynchronous transactional support (no long fscks to check disk state). Dillon also explains why he chose not to use Sun's ZFS.
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2005-11-12
Yeah, just look at windows vista.
But still, Matthew Dillon does tons of the work himself and his mentality to rewrite and redesign stuff instead of using what's already available is pushing the date of an actually feature-complete stable release far into the future.