friendly file system advice

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 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.

Until Sun relicenses ZFS under the GPL, its nothing more than a hope & a 
prayer.  I've not seen any evidence that they have an intention to do 
that.

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Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
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