Re:The State of ZFS on Linux
by mbreese on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:55PM
(#8305665)
Debian is working on a roadmap that includes shipping source drivers to be slipstreamed in as dynamic modules.
DKMS is a tool, but it's hardly the same as a good, in tree module. I remember having tons of issues with DKMS WiFi drivers back when I still ran a Linux laptop (10-ish years ago). If you get an upstream kernel upgrade and the ZFS DKMS module doesn't compile against it, you're screwed. Can you imagine trying to debug DKMS issues with your main filesystem? I hope you leave an ext2/3/4 volume around for booting and root.
I'm glad that you feel like you can discount the work that IBM and Red Hat have done to advance Linux, but they've done a ton to make sure that Linux could take over data centers.
DKMS is a tool, but it's hardly the same as a good, in tree module. I remember having tons of issues with DKMS WiFi drivers back when I still ran a Linux laptop (10-ish years ago). If you get an upstream kernel upgrade and the ZFS DKMS module doesn't compile against it, you're screwed. Can you imagine trying to debug DKMS issues with your main filesystem? I hope you leave an ext2/3/4 volume around for booting and root.
I'm glad that you feel like you can discount the work that IBM and Red Hat have done to advance Linux, but they've done a ton to make sure that Linux could take over data centers.
Good to know... Thanks!