Re: ZFS with Linux: An Open Plea

Kasper Sandberg
2007-04-15T17:34:06Z

On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 04:57 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> On 15/04/07, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@metanurb.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 19:18 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
>
> > By the way, forget about this FUSE business. I don't know why they're
> > bothering: It's not real, it's slow and, in general, silly.
> This seems to me to be a rather uninformed, arrogant, and quite stupid
> comment.
>
> Thank you, sir, for calling my comment stupid. Perhaps you are one of
> those FUSE folk. In that case, I would love for you to enlighten
> me as to why any one would bother attempting to port a file system when it
> is known that not only is it much slower than the slowest
> currently available to Linux, but also does not provide much of the
> functionality of the original product.
Well first off, i dont believe anyone has ever prooved that an fuse
filesystem on linux is inheritly much slower than the slowest filesystem
on linux, in fact i believe this to be very far from the truth, and even
if you are not able to squeeze the last bits of efficiency out, i doubt
that its gonna be the cpu overhead that will kill your IO performance.
ZFS-on-FUSE may not have all the features now, it may not ever get them,
but its far from pointless, but whats even more pointless and silly, is
you blindly acknowledging that you are uninformed and seeking
information (which is okay enough), but at the same time calls stuff
silly and unreal.

>
> As to uninformed, well, yes, I am uninformed; hence my request for you to
> inform me. And arrogant? I sure am.
>
> Cheers.
>
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