friendly file system advice

[Jerry McBride]

On Saturday 12 August 2006 21:14, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 August 2006 03:54, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 20:24 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> >>> On 8/11/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> >>>> I've had some very bad experieces with reiserfs trashing data so
> >>>> have been avoiding it for years.
> >>>
> >>> My experiences exactly - neveragain in this lifetime.
> >>
> >> Same here. Our systems run in a van. We require robustness in the event
> >> of running out of fuel. IMHO, and very unpopular one as well, the vxfs
> >> file system that comes with UnixWare is also damned good. Never a
> >> problem in years of use.
> >
> > We've deployed ext3 as our filesystem of choice. And we're eagerly
> > watching the developments of ZFS for Linux. As soon as something useful
> > comes out of the current porting efforts, we'll begin testing. ZFS is
> > rather well known for it robustness, but until of late it was a
> > proprietary beast of Sun.
>
> Whenever someone starts raving about ZFS I really have to wonder what
> they're basing the claims off of?  ZFS has basically been development
> quality for a few years, and still isn't shipping via any OS installable
> mechanism in Solaris, much less any other OS.  Yes, the featureset sounds
> impressive, but beyond that I don't think there's much real world usage
> going on to validate how well Sun's claims match with reality.  The fact
> that Sun isn't yet making it a Solaris install-time option speaks volumes
> about how much confidence they have in it.

Sorry for the lag in response time...

ZFS is no longer a SUN entity. Once the guys have ZFS sorted out and running, 
it'll be a Linux entity and hopefully one day in the kernel. ZFS is very 
impressive in Slowlaris... it'll be a show stopper in Linux.

Cheers.