ZFS On Linux 0.7.10 Released With Linux 4.18 Support, Debian DKMS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ZFS On Linux 0.7.10 Released With Linux 4.18 Support, Debian DKMS

For those making use of ZFS On Linux to utilize ZFS file-system support on Linux systems, a new ZOL 0.7.10 release along with its SPL layer have been released...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-Linux-0.7.10

[mskarbek]

Along with 0.7.10 ZoL released 0.8.0-rc1 with many new features like native dataset encryption, device removal, channel programs, allocation classes and more.

[mvniekerk86]

In the Afrikaans language a zol is a spliff.
There, that's a thing you know now - enjoy your ZOL release

[Vistaus]

In the Afrikaans language a zol is a spliff.
There, that's a thing you know now - enjoy your ZOL release

Heavens, no! Another app name that should be banned along with GIMP and a couple others!!!

[hax0r]

How is the performance and features? Is it on par with ZFS in Solaris or FreeBSD yet?

[nils_]

How is the performance and features? Is it on par with ZFS in Solaris or FreeBSD yet?

There are still some issues, for example no support for TRIM / Discard and double caching with L2ARC and Linux Page Cache. Solaris is pretty much dead, therefore not really relevant but generally ZoL pulls features from OpenZFS so FreeBSD will always be ahead in that regard. Perhaps this is negated by Linux Kernel performance advantages, but I haven't seen a benchmark recently.

[mskarbek]

ZoL pulls features from OpenZFS so FreeBSD will always be ahead in that regard. Perhaps this is negated by Linux Kernel performance advantages, but I haven't seen a benchmark recently.

Not quite right. It's true that all implementations pulls from OpenZFS reference repository but they evolve on their own. Encryption was implemented in ZFS on Linux and was available only there. TRIM implementation in FreeBSD will be replaced with new one derived from Nexenta (Illumos), what will be pulled from FreeBSD is Zstandard compression.