Interesting Explorations Into FS Wonkitude
In taking a closer look at the wonky world of filesystems, I found some pretty crazy stuff. One thing that I have been looking at for awhile has been ZFS which could help us in the lab with our quest for NAS. I asked my buddy Herschel for some tips on it and he pointed me to a presentation given at his USENIX chapter. The whole thing just looks too good to be true. Although ZFS is available under Linux through FUSE, we’re looking at a GNU OpenSolaris project called Nexenta.
Of course there is then XFS which is a giant load of cool. I’d really like to try XFS on some kind of RAID because of it’s nifty striped allocation and the like. I also do enjoy the ability to dump, restore, check and defrag live filesystems.
Then there is this project called libferris which, as highlighted by a recent Linux Journal article, can turn anything from XML to SSH to MySQL into a filesystem just by mounting it. Crazy eh?
