Re: file systems

[Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:21 PM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, "prad" <prad@towardsfreedom.com> wrote:
>
> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
> > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above?
> >
> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd.
> i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would
> with debian/freebsd as well.
>
> i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs with straight debian
> (which is really what we are leaning to) as we start our research on the
> matter.
>

Read the kernel docs. It's still unstable as hell on linux IIRC.  

You also need to take into account that CDDL (The Sun/Oracle Licence) is not compatible with the GNU Licence, so there are legal issues as well (see the ZFS link I initially posted a few days ago.) The whole point of the rewrite project is to have a native (in-kernel) solution that is legally compatible as well as stable (which it's not right now.)

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