[geeks] ZFS on linux anyone?

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Tue May 22 13:40:10 CDT 2012


On Friday, May 18, 2012, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> I just installed the ZFS on linux kernel drivers on a VM I have
> laying around.  I got decent performance out of it even though the
> disk was virtualized.  I ran bonnie on it and saw 50-60Mbytes/second
> for reads and 30Mbytes/sec writes (not bad on the older hardware I
> was using it on).  I haven't fully tested it yet, like with
> snapshots etc. however.
> 
> Has anyone been using ZFS on Linux for a while?  What do you think of
> it?  BTRFS will not be ready to go for some time, I think.

That's interesting to hear, because I've been using BTRFS on multiple 
Linux systems for more than a year and a half now, with no problems.

-- 
Patrick Finnegan


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