Linked by Rahul on Mon 13th Oct 2008 21:19 UTC
Linux Foundation is organizing a end user collaboration summit this week. A major topic will be a presentation on the new upcoming filesystems - Ext4 and Btrfs. Ted Tso, who is a Linux kernel filesystem developer on a sabbatical from IBM working for Linux Foundation for a year, has talked about the two-pronged approach for the Linux kernel, taking a incremental approach with Ext4 while simultaneously working on the next generation filesystem called btrfs. Read more for details.
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2008-03-15
I like ZFS too; I cannot comment on Solaris, but I have been following ZFS development on FreeBSD though the FreeBSD mailing lists and everything I have read by both the developers and testers point to two important points:
1.) On FreeBSD ZFS is a memory hog; if you don't have enough memory ZFS might exhaust kernel memory and lock up the system; this is why in FreeBSD-CURRENT they've had to increase the kernel memory limit and recommend you stuff as much memory in your system as possible
2.) Relating to the above, its recommended that you use ZFS on the 64 bit architecture so it can address/cache much more memory