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Originally posted by pdffs View PostWhat is with the stupid trolling? It's honestly hardly even worth posting/reading forum threads on Phoronix with the quantity of this kind of nonsense that seems to go on here. It's not even quality trolling.
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Originally posted by mo0n_sniper View Post@Michael: Can you please do some benchmarks with the new zfs code. I would be interested to see the performance between ext4/btrfs/zfs.
Also if you could include OpenSolaris for a native zfs comparison that would be peaches
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It would be good if the linux installers would include some sort of zfs support.
You install the zfs package on the running install media, then you are able to partition and install to zfs. This way the zfs is not provided in the install media and no patent issues arise.
I was trying to do this with a fedora 18 live install but it's not very straight forward.
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Originally posted by mo0n_sniper View PostIt would be good if the linux installers would include some sort of zfs support.
You install the zfs package on the running install media, then you are able to partition and install to zfs. This way the zfs is not provided in the install media and no patent issues arise.
I was trying to do this with a fedora 18 live install but it's not very straight forward.
An alternative to serving via HTTP might be to offer some sort of ability to use supplementary media, like a USB stick, to load the binaries but you've still got to compile those binaries to match every installer version you want to support (and add those media hooks to all the relevant installers). That's a fairly significant (and ongoing) task, particularly when installation media may get point releases that require new bins.
If you have the memory, using a livecd should already give you a moderately simple path to doing an initial install onto ZFS, since you should be able to boot to the live environment, install the packages as normal, prepare the disks as ZFS and perform the install onto them, then chroot into the install and perform any final configuration (here's a link for HOWTO install Ubuntu on ZFS root, haven't read it in a while, but from memory that was the gist of it).
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