friendly file system advice

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:41, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, the license is a problem. But it's out there, I downloaded the ebuild 
for gentoo last night. Very early, alpha stuff, but it compiles cleanly...

I can't wait for a full load source file. I'm almost drooling.

Cheers.