Native port of ZFS for Linux

Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by nailer on Friday June 04, 2010 @02:49PM (#1405214)

It went nowhere. Linux distros and the mainline kernel are using btrfs, which has a similar layer-spanning design as zfs but is btree based like Reiser (which should make it faster).

Most features are done and you can install with btrfs out of the box today in the RHEL 6 or Centos 6 betas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs

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Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by 0bfuscat3 on Sunday June 06, 2010 @06:00AM (#1408300)

ZFS has the following that BTRFS doesn't * Deduplication - Huge in any virtualization environment * Cache layer - Required for high IOPS * fsck - BTRFS cannot fix itself * raid - BTRFS raid currently cannot repair itself and current git of the latest linux kernel still has these isses as well as space issues. I wouldn't trust BTRFS to store /dev/random

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Re:Native port of ZFS for Linux by gxti on Thursday June 10, 2010 @06:50PM (#1422043)

Good, because it's an experimental filesystem. Don't write it off completely though, because all of those (except for "cache layer" -- wtf does that even mean?) are planned.

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