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Sometimes A monolith is "better" than the "Unix-way", think of kernels, network-stack and Filesystems (Btrfs,ZFS) and databases.
by nix23 6y ago
Sometimes A monolith is "better" than the "Unix-way", think of kernels, network-stack and Filesystems (Btrfs,ZFS) and databases.
- throw0101a 6y agoWell, ZFS isn't exactly monolithic if you look under the hood: it has the ZPL (files, directories), DMU (objects, transactions on those objects), SPA (actual disk I/O). A potato-quality video from 2008 with Moore and Bonwick, the creators (timestamped to relevant section): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoUC9P1PmA&t=14m19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoUC9P1PmA&t=14m19s
- magicalhippo 6y agoPossibly less potato-quality video about the same: https://youtu.be/MsY-BafQgj4?t=442 https://youtu.be/MsY-BafQgj4?t=442 (OpenZFS Basics by Matt Ahrens and George Wilson)
- nix23 6y ago>Well, ZFS isn't exactly monolithic if you look under the hood: it has the ZPL True, but i meant one monolithic Storage-System. Kernel's are also not monolithic if you look under the hood.