[Info-vax] New filesystem mentioned

[Grant Taylor]

On 5/13/19 4:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> The answer must depend a lot on what is meant by "file system".

ZFS os quite a bit more than just a simple file system.

> I do not think there is anything in the on disk bytes that are relevant 
> for clustering.

Probably not.

> The code that does the physical transfer of data between disk and 
> memory should not have anything relevant for clustering.

ZFS makes EXTENSIVE use of caching between what's reported back to the 
program and what's written to disk.

I think the big thing for clustering is the current inability to 
synchronize this metadata with an additional system.



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