Btrfs: Oracles answer to Sun's ZFS

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Anyone look into Btrfs? 
  -Tom 

http://www.sdtimes.com/article/LatestNews-20070801-43.html

   August 8, 2007 - Oracle today announced new projects and code 
   contributions to the Linux operating system with the goal of 
   enhancing Linux's enterprise-class capabilities. 
   ... 
   Oracle has developed what it is calling the Btrfs file system, which 
   is designed to address expanding scalability requirements of large 
   storage subsystems. An alpha release is available at 
   http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs. The contribution adds to 
   Oracle's earlier move to open-source the Oracle Cluster File System. 


And... 
Page 22 of issue 181: 
http://www.sdtimes.com/download/images/sdtimes181.pdf

   The Btrfs was created by an Oracle employee in his spare time, and 
   has since been targeted for full production development. The file 
   system includes many of the same features found in Sun Microsystemsâ?? 
   ZFS, such as incremental backups and snapshots. 


And in related news that might be of interest to SUSE fans: 
http://www.sdtimes.com/article/LatestNews-20070801-43.html

   Oracle has...ported the operating system setup and configuration 
   tool Yet another Setup Tool (YaST) to Oracle Enterprise Linux and 
   Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 


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Tom Metro 
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA 
"Enterprise solutions through open source." 
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