Re: Sun ZFS vs. Oracle ASM

From: Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 2005 06:12:42 GMT
Message-ID: <41f09d5a$0$6206$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Vikas Agnihotri <usenet_at_vikas.mailshell.com> writes:

>Cant ZFS be configured to do data redundancy and striping i.e. RAID type
>features? Surely it can? Why would Sun design a new filesystem in 2004
>from scratch and leave out these features? What if a single drive in a
>20-drive ZFS storage pool dies? All the filesystems based on the pool
>are unusable? Surely not

ZFS can do all what the combination of traditinal volume managers and filesystems can do both. (this includes therefor mirroring, striping, and such)

Casper

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