Re: Best OS for Postgres 8.2

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:57:51AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> given that RAID, snapshots, etc are already in the linux kernel, I suspect
> that what will need to happen is for the filesystem to be ported without
> those features and then the userspace tools (that manipulate the volumes )
> be ported to use the things already in the kernel.

Well, part of the idea behind ZFS is that these parts are _not_ separated in
"layers" -- for instance, the filesystem can push data down to the RAID level
to determine the stripe size used.

Whether this is a good idea is of course hotly debated, but I don't think you
can port just the filesystem part and call it a day.

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