Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-14T20:54:56Z

On Apr 14 2007 10:04, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>
> ZFS does have some powerful features but much of it depends on their
> broken layering of volume management. Embedding the equivalent of LVM
> into a filesystem _feels_ quite wrong.
>
>[...]
>
> Unfortunately in order for Linux to incorporate such a feature I'd
> imagine a new filesystem would need to be developed with redirect on
> write at its core. Can't really see ext4 or any other existing Linux
> filesystem grafting such a feature into it. But even though I can't
> see it; do others?

FUSE-based filesystems. (That said, might wanna try through
"ZFS-on-fuse" fs).

Jan
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