On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, mailinglist <mailinglist(a)blahdeblah.co.nz>wrote:
In a more general sense, I'm wary of the various efforts to get ZFS
into linux. It's very unlikely to be included in the mainstream kernel in a hurry, due to licensing issues, and while some distros may offer it as a feature, it is limited in many ways (eg, with Sabayon, you can't easily install to ZFS). Further, once you've got your system onto a ZFS filesystem, you're reliant on the continued support of whoever got it there. With an in-kernel filesystem, you have far more support. It's a shame, I'd really like to be able to use some of ZFS's features, but I don't think it's ready in linux
Hello Daniel,
Thank you very much for your thoughtful analysis and comments. I'll probably use your suggestion of using md5sums for sorting the file archive.
What were the ZFS feature you thought you'd like to use?
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Chris. The RAID features look very good, making it robust filesystem. From a management point of view it illuminates a layer to manage as the file system is the RAID provider. If you wanted to have a look I believe FreeNAS (BSD based) has it as a storage option, obviously you would need to dedicate a machine / Virtual machine to being a NAS. Greg