ZFS File-System Tests On The Linux 3.10 Kernel

[mercutio]

Back in like 2008 it was a big deal, now ZFS is pretty much irrelevant.

btrfs is still buggy and runs out of disk space when there is still free disk easily on small partitions (like on ssd)

lvm's snapshotting isn't great

zfs is a bit "big", and a bit slow but it's stable and does tend to work pretty well.

the zfs snapshotting and zfs send / zfs recv is great. it has lz4 compression as option now, it's having forward momentum.

[mercutio]

Phoronix: ZFS File-System Tests On The Linux 3.10 Kernel

Using the latest ZFS On Linux support, the ZFS file-system was benchmarked from the Linux 3.10 stable kernel and compared to the Linux file-system competition...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQyNzk

it strikes me that these benchmarks look pretty synthetic, do you have any idea if there's some way to test something more akin to real usage performance? i've been playing with zfs and lz4 compression on ssd, and i compared zfs and md/ext4 for zfs, and i noticed that zfs cpu usage can be pretty high, and performance is generally lower, but in real use a lot of difference seems to disappear, and lz4 compression is nice

[mark45]

Back in like 2008 it was a big deal, now ZFS is pretty much irrelevant.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ZFS File-System Tests On The Linux 3.10 Kernel

Using the latest ZFS On Linux support, the ZFS file-system was benchmarked from the Linux 3.10 stable kernel and compared to the Linux file-system competition...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQyNzk