Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Mar 1 22:16:00 CST 2013
Hi Hans: Thanks for that. I will check it out over dinner. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Andersen Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 5:51 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The ZFS FS ZFS is indeed the ultimate file system. Here's a great introduction to the features of ZFS: http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/13052/ultimate-zfs-overview-techsnap-28/ Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 1 Mar 2013, at 16:48, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > ZFS may be the ultimate file system for any OS. > > It features are quite incredible. ZFS is a combined file system and logical > volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include > protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, > integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots > and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic > repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. ZFS is implemented as open-source > software. > > If you are worry about the integrity of the file system, it is supposed to > be the most stable FS in the world. If you are concerned that it can not > access sufficient storage don't worry. A ZFS file system can store up to 256 > quadrillion zettabytes (ZB), where a 1 zettabyte = 1,073,741,824 terabytes > ...much larger than most of our MS Access MDBs. > > http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html > > It can install on a number of Distros but unfortunately, it is not supported > by Windows Servers...yet. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com