[Samba] filesystem of choice?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Jun 26 16:13:43 MDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote:
> ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to
> deploy it soon on a home server.  Just a few minor niceties missing
> for now, but all the essential features are in place, and the bugs
> are only trickling in and nothing major's come up in a while.
> 
> I'd certainly not trust it to a ~100TB multi server multi SAN
> environment yet, but soon~  zvol has been there from zfs for a
> while, so if you want xfs on ZFS in your environment, that's the
> closest I'd trust it in production yet.

Is this the ZFS port to the Linux kernel ? If so it's interesting
but rather limiting as the CDDL license makes it impossible for
anyone to distribute as a combined work - rules out adoption by
and Linux distros or commercial entities for example :-(.

Shame, really does seem like a nice filesystem.

Jeremy.


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