Re: LVM and ZFS

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting David Christensen (dpchrist@holgerdanske.com):
> 
> Then I heard about ZFS.  So, I tried zfs-fuse (Debian package) and
> then ZFS on Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org/).

I love pages like this. I clicked on Debian. The page assumes you know
all about package keys and signing, but feels the necessity to explain
how to uncomment a line by removing the #. Sweet.

> 1.  By design, ZFS has a very different mindset from traditional
> partitions, volume management, and file systems.  Just running it
> required a fair amount of learning.  Backing up and restoring ZFS
> was even harder.

I agree. I looked at some docs and even tried to help someone here.
I think they missed the fact that fstab doesn't apply to zfs unless
you specifically tell it to use it, and even then, I'm not sure it
doesn't use "vfstab" and not "fstab". But they went away...

> 3.  ZFS should really be run on a machine with ECC memory, which I
> don't have.

...and when I read that, I completely lost interest. (I do have a
Pentium III coppermine with 500MB ECC!)

Cheers,
David.