http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:52:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-700 Joshua Lee Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:28:00 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-700 True, DTrace may be more difficult to implement solely in userspace, unfortunately. Unless Linux becomes a microkernel. ;-) True, DTrace may be more difficult to implement solely in userspace, unfortunately. Unless Linux becomes a microkernel.

]]> http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-696 Head Geek Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:04:30 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-696 From what I hear, that's why Sun licensed ZFS the way they did -- it can't legally be integrated into the Linux kernel, as I understand it. Not that that matters a great deal, the FUSE implementation is pretty good, even in it's current unoptimized state. From what I hear, that’s why Sun licensed ZFS the way they did — it can’t legally be integrated into the Linux kernel, as I understand it. Not that that matters a great deal, the FUSE implementation is pretty good, even in it’s current unoptimized state.

]]> http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-692 Joshua Lee Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:22:24 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2007/12/16/i-love-zfs/#comment-692 All we need is DTrace and Linux will woop Solaris simply for being also more user-friendly. (I don't mean the GUI, that's identical now, I mean the legacy System V interface compared to GNU.) Of course, Solaris is also a rock-solid system otherwise, and there's a few other good things (Like the better compiler than gcc, though I believe Sun makes their C compiler for Linux too - and on Intel Intel's compiler is yet better than Sun's. To be fair, gcc is probably the most portable compiler around...) All we need is DTrace and Linux will woop Solaris simply for being also more user-friendly. (I don’t mean the GUI, that’s identical now, I mean the legacy System V interface compared to GNU.) Of course, Solaris is also a rock-solid system otherwise, and there’s a few other good things (Like the better compiler than gcc, though I believe Sun makes their C compiler for Linux too - and on Intel Intel’s compiler is yet better than Sun’s. To be fair, gcc is probably the most portable compiler around…)

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