ZFS Dedupe finally integrated

djBon2112 said:
I'm just waiting for ZFS on Linux :(
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Just fire up a FreeBSD or openSolaris VM and hand the disks directly to the VM.


Or you could just wait on btrfs to catch up. Personally, I don't want to wait that long. All ZFS implementations on Linux will forever be userspace.
 
LightningCrash said:
Just fire up a FreeBSD or openSolaris VM and hand the disks directly to the VM.


Or you could just wait on btrfs to catch up. Personally, I don't want to wait that long. All ZFS implementations on Linux will forever be userspace.
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Not unless Sun changes the license, which COULD happen, but is also unlikely :(

I'm watching btrfs closely, though I may just try out OpenSolaris a bit and see how that works ;)
 
djBon2112 said:
Not unless Sun changes the license, which COULD happen, but is also unlikely :(

I'm watching btrfs closely, though I may just try out OpenSolaris a bit and see how that works ;)
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The only gripe I have with OSOL and FreeBSD is the persistence: FreeBSD provides 2yrs of updates on a release, OSOL doesn't come close to 2yrs.
Compare that to CentOS with 7yrs and Ubuntu LTS with 5yrs... :p

OSOL shouldn't be too bad if you're familiar with RedHat/CentOS. You should be able to get a zpool up, NFS up, and be exporting volumes in no time.
I wouldn't really rely upon it for anything outside of that, compatibility struggles are not worth the headache.
 
djBon2112 said:
Not unless Sun changes the license, which COULD happen, but is also unlikely :(

I'm watching btrfs closely, though I may just try out OpenSolaris a bit and see how that works ;)
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I guess you mean unless Oracle changes the license for ZFS. And since BTRFS also is a Oracle initiated project, it should be interesting to see how things play out...
 
Since BTRFS development is mainly driven by Oracle, I fear that this will slow down now that Oracle owns ZFS.

EDIT: Bwah, ancient thread revival.
 
Holy zombie thread.

Anyways, due to licensing issues ZFS can't be integrated directly into the Linux kernel, and must use Fuse. Or something like that :D Anyways, You're better off just using something that supports ZFS natively.
 
Jesse B said:
Holy zombie thread.

Anyways, due to licensing issues ZFS can't be integrated directly into the Linux kernel, and must use Fuse. Or something like that :D Anyways, You're better off just using something that supports ZFS natively.
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We were just talking about the KQ Infotech module... and it's not from FUSE, it's the real thing.
 
I played with both fuse & The KQ Infotech module & ran some i/o tests we have here and was able to kernel panic both....

FreeBSD/ZFS survived.
 
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