ZFS was promised, and didn’t arrive. In fact, there were about 4 of us on the beta program who saw the original zfs implementation, and it was quite different from what we have now. What eventually landed as zfs in Solaris was a complete rewrite. The beta itself was interesting – we were sent the driver, 3 binaries, and a 3-line cheatsheet, and that was it. There was a fundamental philosophy here that the whole thing was supposed to be so easy to use and sufficiently obvious that it didn’t need a manual, and that was actually true. (It’s gotten rather more complex since, to be fair.)
Peter Tribble – long-time Solaris expert and creator of Tribblix – gives a gimpse into the earliest versions of ZFS, and just how different it was from the shipped release.
Awesome, I love it when OsNews posts an article relevant to my interests. Article answered an obscure question I always had about ZFS.
Same. I’ve followed OSN since its inception for stuff like this.
Thanks, Thom!
*pets his ZFS arrays*
I agree – articles like these are the reason I bought that coffee mug – and continue to read OSNews.