On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, James A. Peltier jpeltier@sfu.ca wrote:
| Is the (snicker) from the slow development or do you think the goals | are impossible? Btrfs on top of ceph sounds as good as a | posix-looking fs could get.
I don't like to start flame wars so lets just say that I think the limitations imposed on btrfs from a design perspective were such that I don't think there is a chance that it will ever get the capabilities of the file system that it is trying to compete against (ZFS). There is a reason that the ZFS developers decided to toss out years of experience in file systems and start over. The overhead and limitations of the traditional methods just didn't cut it.
I just think it is sad that the linux kernel license prohibits distribution with 'best-of-breed' components... But conceptually, distributing the block storage seems like a good idea and zfs embeds a lot of the block device management.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com