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I was watching a video about ZFS on opensolaris.org and it looks awesome. I hope it gets implemented in the Linux Kernel soon Here it is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commun.../demos/basics/...
  1. 09-29-2006 #1
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    I want ZFS!

    I was watching a video about ZFS on opensolaris.org and it looks awesome. I hope it gets implemented in the Linux Kernel soon

    Here it is http://www.opensolaris.org/os/commun.../demos/basics/
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    This looks great indeed, but I am sorry to hear to it won't come to Linux soon :

    Quote Originally Posted by WIkipedia article on ZFS
    Porting ZFS to Linux is complicated by incompatibilities between CDDL, the license its source is released under, and GPL, the license which governs the Linux kernel. To work around this problem the Google Summer of Code program is sponsoring a port of ZFS to Linux's FUSE system[7] so the filesystem will run in userspace instead. However, running a file system outside the kernel has significant perfomance impact.
    In the mean time, I'll stick to XFS, which has been the best performer for me so far.
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    Yes, I read that too.
    Tried XFS yesterday and now im having some nasty problems (grub doesnt load, corrupt file system, etc) I think I'll stick with ext3 by now. Going to reformat right now.

    I am writing this from Knoppix!
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    I'm really interested in using ZFS too, I've been reading a lot on it since it was introduced. It's a pity the CDDL was written specifically to be incompatible with the GPL, both Solaris and Linux could have benefitted.

    That XFS problem you had - did you try keeping your /boot partition as ext2/3 or similar? If not your initrd needs to have XFS drivers in it.
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    My kernel was built from source (gentoo-sources-r and have XFS support built in, not like a module. But after deleting some ext3 and ext2 partition GRUB refused to load with Error 22. system.map was fine and the /boot folder of my root partition (XFS) was intact.

    Did some xfs_repair and xfs_check from knnopix but the problem persisted. Did a backup and installed Arch.
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    Grub just doesn't work reliably with XFS. I use ext2 or ext3 for my /boot partition if I want Grub, or simply lilo.
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    I did some research before getting the boot folder (now partition!) under XFS, and everybody said it works flawlessly and XFS support in GRUB is great. But it's not as advertised by everybody
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    Thread necromancy!


    I was just curious who is *also* running zfs on Linux? hihi
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    Hi, Freston

    Please start a new thread if you have any questions about ZFS because this one is almost 4 year old.

    Thanks.
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