[clue] ZFS on Linux?

[Sean LeBlanc]

Hrm, didn't know about that one. *googles*

Dug this up, and started reading the thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/32cu9w/zfs_vs_btrfs/

Looks like it will offer more features than ZFS and will satisfy some 
people's desire license-wise (GPL)...when it's ready? Given that people 
are saying big companies are funding active development, maybe that's 
not too far off?

Maybe it's a vim vs. Emacs thing, though. But it's good to have options 
and maybe the two projects will push each other toward further excellence.

I wonder how hard it is to get ZFS on Linux, though. I also wonder how 
well ZFS in a VM scenario (guest or host) works for either Linux or 
FreeBSD. I wish I still had my stable of desktops/servers around to 
experiment with.


On 10/31/15 12:15 PM, dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> Does btrfs offer equivalent capabilities?
>
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> *From: *"Sean LeBlanc" <seanleblanc at comcast.net>
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> *Subject: *[clue] ZFS on Linux?
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> Anyone doing this? As many of you may or may not know, I dabble in the
> BSDs from time to time, and one of those more recent outcomes of that
> dabbling was a FreeNAS server I set up about 2 years ago to support Time
> Machine for macs as well as content for a Plex server.
>
> I just sort of dove headlong into it, and didn't much background reading
> on ZFS itself. Since I'm now thinking of getting more drives (but cannot
> really afford them until maybe next year) and probably backing
> up/reconfiguring, I thought I'd read about it, so I picked up the
> FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS book and started reading it.
>
> They give a bit more background on ZFS - I didn't realize that Snoracle
> took it closed source after acquisition, and that what is commonly
> called "ZFS" is probably really OpenZFS, and that Snoracle has their own
> version now, different than what the rest of world calls ZFS.
>
> Anyway, I got to wondering about the state of ZFS on Linux and see there
> is a site: http://zfsonlinux.org/
>
> Anyone here have any experience with it? Is ZFS poised to be a
> mainstream thing on Linux, or is there something else more likely to
> fill that role?
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