On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:59:12AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
"Peter" == Peter D Gray pdg@uow.edu.au writes:
Peter> With netapp, I get WAFL file system technology, for a SUN and Peter> SAN, I get UFS (maybe ZFS) technology.
Don't forget VxFS, a very nice and manageable filesystem. Put it with VxVM and you've got alot of the OnTap 7 aggregate/flexvol stuff already there for you.
Not standard in solaris, as far as I am aware. (correct me if I am wrong).
And you get some of the features of WAFL, but not others. And the ones you do get are implemented entirely differently, which has some impacts such as performance.
It appears from first glance that ZFS has nearly all the features of WAFL, at least conceptually if not in practice. Are they using netapp patents I wonder?
Peter> I know which one I want.
The one that makes the most sense for my needs. After my problems with OnTap 7.0.1R1 and quotas and qtrees earlier this week, I'm a bit leary of NetApp right now. OnTap 7G is still shaking out major bugs...
As others have said, you cannot criticize an OS when you are on a very early release that was superceded months ago. We have been on 7G now for months on all our filers without any issue at all. I will say that 7g when it was released was not as stable as 6, but thats hardly surprising given the magitude of the changes.
Regards, pdg
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