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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And more importantly, the situation he is in, he doesn't have to contend with the office politics with marketing breathing down the programmers necks to implement zyx feature because it has foobah buzzword.
ZFS is also very much in its infancy; this isn't a bash against it, but having had a look at the various bugs that have come up regarding it, I'd sooner feel more comfortable sticking with something like UFS.