Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 14th Oct 2007 14:52 UTC, submitted by Oliver
BSD and Darwin derivatives 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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RE[3]: Honk! Honk!
by Oliver on Sun 14th Oct 2007 18:01 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Honk! Honk!"
Oliver
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2006-07-15

ZFS is in operation since about 2003 by Sun. Some big companies and universities are using it already for servers. Maybe not as bullet-proof as UFS, but ready for prime-time.

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