On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 10:25:04 +0000 Mick <[email protected]> said:
> On Sunday 08 Dec 2013 01:48:18 Steven@e wrote: > > >> Hello beber, just for information, you dont need FUSE anymore to use > > >> ZFS. zfsonlinux solves this. > > > > > > Thanks for the info, but why should we need this ? I see no valid > > > reason. > > There are out-of-tree Linux kernel modules care of ZFSOnLinux Project[1]. > Therefore using ZFS-Fuse is not necessary (or recommended). At least one > valid reason for using ZFS (there are many) is that it guards against fs > corruption by using CRC checksums. > > I understand that both Oracle (RHL) Linux and SUSE consider BTRFS production > ready and Oracle will be/are using this instead of ZFS. From my limited > understanding BTRFS is being developed at speed and catching up with ZFS, but > it does not have the amount of testing that ZFS had to date to vouch for its > stability/maturity. At this stage in their development ZFS is superior to > BTRFS in terms of functionality, although there is hope that BTRFS will > develop at speed. and why? ext4 HAS been production ready for YEARS... inf act not production ready... it has been *IN8 production for years... if there is a fs i would trust - it's ext4. not zfs and DEFINITELY not btrfs. ext4 (and 3 etc. before it) have many more miles of PRODUCTION behind them. what this probably was ... was an unstable bleeding-edge kernel since the servers are being run on gentoo and thus are not exactly being conservative. it was probably a newly introduced bug that hasn't been hammered out and other fs's used less will have such bugs many times MORE than ext4 will. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
