The State of ZFS on Linux

Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by DiabloD3 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:16PM (#8303452)

They have it for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu and Debian have somewhat diverged on how it is done. It is not a big issue for me on this build, but if I wanted to do large scale file servers and didn't want to stash a USB dongle in the box for root, it would be useful.

Although, I guess I could use FreeBSD if I didn't need KVM and/or Xen....

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Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by walterbell on Thursday September 11, 2014 @09:05PM (#8306122)

How about FreeBSD guest on Xen with Linux dom0?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen

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Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by Freaky on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:57PM (#8303679)

> I guess I could use FreeBSD if I didn't need KVM and/or Xen....

Have you looked at BHYVE?

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Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by justincormack on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:20PM (#8303480)

There is bhyve now...

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Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by DiabloD3 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:42PM (#8303601)

I've heard mixed reviews of that. It is probably not quite ready for production, but it will be interesting in the future.

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Re:The State of ZFS on Linux by mbreese on Friday September 12, 2014 @11:59AM (#8308746)

Just to add to the reviews - I've had difficulty in getting Bhyve to consistently work. Sometimes the VM will boot fine, others it will just crash halfway into the boot cycle. When it works, it's good. It has a few years before it gets to Xen/KVM levels of stability, but it's a really good start.

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