Tru64 AdvFS

David Holland wrote: I've been drooling over Sun's "zfs" lately, which seems to have many of the same features. But zfs is not gpl - worse, it appears to be purposefully anti-gpl. Since Sun wrote it they can do as they please, but it seems a shame to lock it out of linux (for me anyway). I wonder how advfs and zfs compare in terms of stability and resource use. Also, advfs does not mention the "self repairing" features of zfs which make it so tempting for long term archiving (there, now i'm inside the bounds :-) I do worry about long term corruption and zfs seems to have that solved (i.e. a simple raid-1 setup will save you) Word on the street is that zfs is *very* resource intensive and best run in 64 bit kernels, but that when run the pool and self repairing features make it very easy to administer. I'd be curious to hear if anyone is using zfs for long term archival and how they feel about being glued to solaris to use it. (aside: I used to be a serious solaris weenie back in the day, so I'm a fan, but linux just became so much more practical at some point) -brad