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thanks ryao, I've actually been using the latest hardened gentoo kernel in a laptop that I use for political activism. Only good things to say about it.
I'm fairly new to linux but all the articles that I've red stated clearly that ZFS was the best thing to come out of oracle... light years ahead of the major file systems and anyone could see it was the superior FS, even here I saw multiple posts stating the same.
I know that mass migration to ZFS won't happen but how far can you take this EXT thing? EXT7?
instead of pricking a dying horse (with the consequences exposed here) I would request all distros to give you ZFS as an option
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@Pallidus
I recall there are some issues with licensing and patents, and that kind of stuff ..
Here's some related info.
I haven't used ZFS myself though, ext4 seems enough for me. I assume people are talking about the original ZFS and not any "ports" under development?
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Originally posted by frantaylor View PostApparently Linus Torvalds is actually just a bot that collects [... the creaking continues ...].
Look, and feast your feeble brains with something you will never understand anyw... actually forget about everything I ss... no wait you wouldn't understand any of that either! So (from the changelog of 3.6.2 - those are called numbers.. can you count all the way up to 6?):
jbd2: don't write superblock when if its empty commit eeecef0af5ea4efd763c9554cf2bd80fc4a0efd3 upstream.
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Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg-not-Linus Kroah-not-Torvalds-Hartman <[email protected]>
Originally posted by Paradox Uncreated View PostFuck you in the biggest way.
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Originally posted by Rigaldo View Post@Pallidus
I recall there are some issues with licensing and patents, and that kind of stuff ..
Here's some related info.
I haven't used ZFS myself though, ext4 seems enough for me. I assume people are talking about the original ZFS and not any "ports" under development?
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ZFS
I have been using ZFS for a couple of months on boxes that present iSCSI storage off to VMWare hosts (set up a huge RAIDZ2 array, then make 2TB zvols in it, share those as iSCSI LUNs...", and tried it out specifically to get away from using hardware RAID cards that take forever and a week to rebuild a 10TB array. It seems to pretty much "just work", and I was able to train one of our mid-level tech minions how to do the setup and config. That said, I don't really feel any burning need for it on smaller boxes or desktops.
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Originally posted by ryao View PostI did a write up for the Sabayon community about this. in short, the stuff at Wikipedia is inaccurate, I need to find time to correct wiki pages and using ZFS in the form of kernel modules is fine. You can read my post on the Sabayon forums for more details.
https://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic....it=ZFS#p154165
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Originally posted by ulenrich View PostIt was a very,very special and unreasonable setup which triggerd the data loss for just two people.
And then I used that configuration for three and a half years with not a single tiny problem. Sorry, I don't generally go back to three-and-a-half year old working system configurations and wonder if perhaps they are too dangerous and should be changed! -- not until they actually cause problems, that is.
Now if you use nobarrier without battery-backed hardware RAID or something equally high-end with independent power (like a SAN), you are indeed doing something unreasonable, verging on suicidal. But battery-backed hardware RAID isn't actually that expensive anymore, and isn't that rare: it added less than ?100 to the cost of this machine when I bought it (and performance-wise, it flies!).
And, hey, even if it was unreasonable, part of the reason why I run with strange options is so that I can report bugs in them
What was probably unreasonable was splashing a conversation/debugging-in-progress all over the media. I still haven't found all the places this got published, almost always hyped-up beyond any reasonable degree, and with the exception of LWN (where I posted a 'hey, hold off upgrading for now' comment) *everyone* got it wrong. Oh well. (As far as I can tell, Phoronix was first, and was probably the source from which this fountain of inaccuracy sprang.)
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