Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ZFS on Linux: It's alive
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> | The project is working, with several users running and even booting from
> | a ZFS volume. Correia has not undertaken any performance tuning yet, and
> | one sysadmin, Chris Samuel, has posted benchmarks that clock only about
> | half the speed of another Linux filesystem, XFS.
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>
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/061807-zfs-on-linux.html#6285522977769458795
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>
> Related:
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> ZFS Filesystem for FUSE/Linux
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> | ZFS is an advanced modern general-purpose filesystem from Sun
> | Microsystems, originally designed for Solaris/OpenSolaris.
> |
> | This project is a port of ZFS to the FUSE framework for the
> | Linux operating system.
> |
> | It was sponsored by Google, as part of the Google Summer of
> | Code 2006 program.
> `----
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> http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE
>
>
> Linux: Btrfs, File Data and Metadata Checksums
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> | Chris Mason announced an early alpha release of his new Btrfs
> | filesystem, "after the last FS summit, I started working on a new
> | filesystem that maintains checksums of all file data and metadata." He
> | listed the following features as "mostly implemented": "extent based
> | file storage (2^64 max file size), space efficient packing of small
> | files, space efficient indexed directories, dynamic inode allocation,
> | writable snapshots, subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots),
> | checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available), very
> | fast offline filesystem check".
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> http://kerneltrap.org/node/8376
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>
> Rampant layering syndrome
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> | It's another post from a ZFS developer's blog. This time, it's Jeff
> | Bonwick responding to Andrew Morton's claim that ZFS is a "rampant
> | layering violation" because it cuts across the traditionally
> | separate worlds of the filesystem, volume manager, and RAID controller.
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>
>
http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2007/05/04/rampant-layering-syndrome
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>
> Linux: ZFS, Licenses and Patents
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> | A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a
> | Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the
> | file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and
> | that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being
> | reverse engineered.
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> http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
What they have todo is get ZFS off of the FUSE framework and make it a
legitimate filesystem. Until then, it'll not be any kind of performer and
only a shadow of it's former self...
--
Jerry McBride
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