17Aug2010 (UTC +8) On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 01:28, andrelst <[email protected]> wrote: > Drexx, > I don't think Oracle will kill small fries like ZFS on Solaris, when > you can kill the big kanuha... the whole OpenSolaris project itself!
They just did, a few days ago :( http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2010-August/059310.html > Anyways, back to the subject. What is your purpose or objective > (snapshots, remote cloning, deduplication, etc.)? From there, we can > deduce which one. It may just happen that ext3/4 can meet your needs. Mostly data storage, where I process dd'ed images of hard disk drives. Currently using a mix of EXT4 and XFS. Lot's of md5sum / sha256sum checking, undeleting files, and doing strings searches. We're talking of 100's of GB's :) > ZFS has proven itself for many years on an Solaris Platform. Working > with it at home and on the enterprise market, no showstoppers or > serious bugs that I have encountered. Cool. That's why I like ZFS too, but I'm not sure where it's headed. > Like you, Have been testing and monitoring BTRFS as well for quite > some time. Casual usage is fine and okay, and as long you take note of > the "Gotchas" on their wiki. I personally would not trust for now > important data yet. Maybe wait after a few months or next year. Have > read that they are aiming (Oracle) for a stable october release this > year. A plus is that Linus is personally testing it as well. > > IMHO, if it's ZFS vs. BTRFS, for a general all-purpose File system > *now*, go with ZFS. Otherwise, BTRFS if you have good backups or non > important files to use. > > regards, > Andre | http://www.varon.ca > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote: >> I think I'll go with Linux BTRFS instead of the Solaris ZFS. How about >> you here in PLUG? >> >> BTRFS is more promising than ZFS in terms of performance and features, >> and specially long-term community support. I have a hunch Oracle will >> kill ZFS, as they're all about the money. >> >> >> What is BTRFS? >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs >> >> Great article! Talks about experiences of ZFS and ReiserFS developers >> getting into BTRFS >> http://lwn.net/Articles/342892/ >> >> BTFRS is available now, but is scheduled to be stable only by October 2010 >> http://www.workswithu.com/2010/08/02/ubuntu-10-10s-new-file-system-btrfs/ >> >> Another great technical article >> http://www.h-online.com/open/features/The-Btrfs-file-system-746597.html?view=print >> >> BTRFS, EXT4 & ZFS On A Solid-State Drive >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=btrfs_zfs_ssd >> >> Benchmarking ZFS On FreeBSD vs. EXT4 & BTRFS On Linux >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs >> >> Testing Out BTFRS In Ubuntu 10.10 >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1010_btrfs Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Singapore / Manila / California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 0117 15C5 F3B1 6564 59EA 6013 1308 9A66 41A2 3F9B _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
