It's finally here. Sort of. The ZFS on FUSE project has really come along lately and it finally is now ready for basic use (and always more testing). You couldn't use it as a root file system, and it's not quite fast enough for a server. There are still some speed and memory usage issues to work out. Other than that, being a fuse file system doesn't seem to really matter. Once you launch the fuse zfs daemon, all the sun ZFS commands work and everything (except NFS exporting) works just like on the solaris box. I doubt you'd want to use RaidZ with it yet, just because of the speed and memory issues. But if you want to play around with basic pools, mirrored pools, etc, it's ready to experiment with. I have plans to build a mythtv box later in the year and I'm thinking that the storage on that box is going to be ZFS via fuse. Anyway, if you're interested, see https://www2.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28660784&postID=3835251210106692473
or for a direct download, see https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6836 I've just been testing it out on my linux machine with files instead of devices and everything works as expected. The behind-the-scenes corruption fixer is cool too. You can overwrite one of the mirror devices with data and it's fixed on the fly. I'll set it up on some real disks here pretty soon. Michael /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
