Hi Thomas,

Thomas Maier-Komor píše v st 09. 12. 2009 v 09:32 +0100:
> On 08.12.2009 23:08, Francois Laagel wrote:
> >> Jörg Stephan schrieb:
> >> [...]
> >> Why doesn't Linux support ZFS?
> >>
> > 
> > If does! In user mode through FUSE. Just the same way as, I've heard,
> > if you're really determined you can implement NTFS under OpenSolaris.
> > 
> >         Francois
> 
> I know ;-)
> 
> My question was meant rhetorically...
> 
> Anyway, both FUSE based solutions are really only a workaround. What I
> wanted to imply with my question is: don't expect other systems than
> Linux to support ext2/ext3, as Linux also doesn't support things like
> ZFS out of the box.
> 
> One really has to live with the native filesystems an OS provides. Best
> thing that you can get in common are SMB and NFS, as VFAT has almost no
> features whatsoever and a lot of severe limitations (e.g. 4G file size
> limit that hit me already a couple of times...)
> 

There is no technical reason, only limited manpower, why OSol cannot
support ext2/ext3. On-disk format is stable and documented and here is
the solution:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ext3/

SMB/NFS is good for migration if you have 2 systems but for small
business and dualboot it is not good enough.

ext4 is different topic.

Best regards,

Milan

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