[Discuss] Debian 11 -> 12

Dan Ritter dsr at randomstring.org
Thu May 30 17:34:45 EDT 2024


Rich Pieri wrote: 
> I almost agree on a technicality: ZFS was not designed for a "general
> audience". It was designed to be the last word -- or at least the last
> letter, "Z" -- in enterprise scalability and performance. But it just so
> happens to be really good at smaller scales, too. Better than almost
> anything else I've used, but I have a fondness for Digital's AdvFS for
> OSF/1 aka Tru64 Unix and there may be nostalgia goggles in the way.


Not so much smaller scales, as that smaller scales have grown
larger.

ZFS was introduced in 2005. In 2005, spinning disks cost about
$500 per TB. Lots of PCs had 250GB disks.

-dsr-


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