Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research results

Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by worthless-trash on Sunday December 10, 2023 @01:40AM (#38589641)

How many zfs systems you think are running right now, all hours combined compared to linux ext filesystems ?

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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by lproven on Sunday December 10, 2023 @04:01PM (#38595003)

"Bananas are better than passion fruit because there are more bananas being grown!"

ZFS is an enterprise storage-management tool. It's not just another hard disk format, like ext4.

Not many people are running Linux boxes with root on ZFS because few distros support that.

Single-disk setups are not its strength so the number of single-disk setups of ZFS compared to ext4, which only supports single-disk setups, is irrelevant.

Even saying that, though...

I bet all FreeBSD deployments are on ZFS, and it's got a solid enterprise presence. Anything streamed off Netflix anywhere is being served by FreeBSD.

Oracle still supports Solaris. All Solaris, OpenSolaris, Illumos, Nexenta, OmniOPS, SmartOS, Tribblix... all on ZFS.

And it's still not its core area.

If you want to do a fair comparison let's hear about companies doing petascale to exascale arrays with double-digit to quadruple-digit numbers of drives.

How many of them do you reckon use ext4?

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Re:Tell HN: ZFS silent data corruption bugfix – my research ... by worthless-trash on Monday December 11, 2023 @10:48PM (#38609180)

I'm not the one who moved the goal posts here though was I ?

Here, let me quote myself.

> The software is being used by more people, which means it will expose more bugs.

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