[geeks] SSD for MacBook Pro

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Is this the SGI-based XFS that is being switched to?

For important stuff, ZFS is the best, because of the checksumming etc.

Am looking into DragonFlyBSD as a file storage server role, given that like ZFS it can easily do mirroring and snapshots, and has checksumming and dedup also.

Cheers

Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Stracchino" <phils at caerllewys.net>
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 10:13:25 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [geeks] SSD for MacBook Pro

On 06/26/15 18:18, Josh Snyder wrote:
> On 6/26/2015 5:04 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Hmm.  Didn't realize it was specific to ext4.  I long since stopped
>> using the ext* filesystems.  Their day has passed; there are better
>> filesystems out there.
> 
> About five years ago I switched away from Linux on my file server just 
> because I wanted ZFS support.  Been happily running FreeBSD ever since. 
>   But what file systems are people recommending today?  I do quite a bit 
> of Cloud stuff and it's all Linux(mostly Ubuntu) running on ext4 file 
> systems.  So I know most official images for Linux distro's are still 
> using ext4.

It's still the default of most distributions, yes, though I am advised
some distributions (including Red Hat) are switching to XFS as their
default filesystem.  JFS was another good alternative, and I used it for
over ten years before switching to XFS myself, but it has rather fallen
by the wayside and is not well maintained any more.  Native ZFS on Linux
would IMO be the holy grail, if the license issues could be resolved.
>From all I've seen and heard, btrfs is a second-best attempt to copy
most of ZFS' functionality without infringing on intellectual property,
but a lot of what I've read makes it clear that it is very much second best.


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