* Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> [2013-12-08 21:42:25 +0900]:

> 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.

I am going to chime in and give my 2 cents. for filesystems, on production
servers I tell our ops guys only use ext4 or xfs thats it. 

Nex6


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