From the little I know, zfs needs a lot of ram, empirically 1 GiB per
TiB of filesystem space. I wouldn't see any use for it on my laptop, but
it is extremely useful on an office server.
In my specific case, we often store all tested version of our games,
which are around 4 GiB of compressed data each. While binaries change a
lot from one release to the other, data tends to be pretty much the
same. Deduplication had incredible results for us, and it was well worth
the extra investment in ram.
I would love to see that on Linux, as maintaining an openIndiana server
was a real pain. I'll have a look around on the legal issues and write
here if I find anything interesting.
mic
On 25/05/2012 21:01, Glenn Phillips wrote:
I see ryao got a hold of you, good I was going to direct you to him if
not :P
I think leaving zfs as a compile time option would be your best bet, as
in provide a kernel SOURCE package thats pre-configured (genkernel all)
like sys-kernel/sabayon-sources-zfs would be the 'best' 'safest' choice
all around
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Fabio Erculiani <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Richard Yao <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> sys-kernel/spl is GPL licensed.
>
ooh. I didn't realize that.
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Fabio Erculiani
