[CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 17:35:26 UTC 2013


On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at 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.

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   Les Mikesell
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