I really wonder if anything can surpass ZFS in light of it’s rockin feature set. Specifically, the whole concept of storage pools is a huge selling point. My understanding is that filesystems can be allocated on top of logical disks called zpools. Now, it would seem that, much like the Linux logical volume manager (LVM), physical disks can be grouped together in logical ones. The key difference is that with ZFS, zpools can be created and modified on the fly as first-class ZFS citizens with all the sides and toppings. I know that I’ve sung ZFS’ praises before, but I can’t overemphasize the advantages that the ability to dynamically add disks like this would bring to Linux.

Still, with all of the different front-ends to GCC available, I wonder why non-C languages aren’t used. Ada seems like it would be *so* much more testable, maintainable and stable.