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ZFS and CentOS are not a good combination, in my experience. The Red Hat/Oracle feud doesn't give RH much incentive to be ZFS-friendly, and the interaction betw
by flyinghamster 9y ago
ZFS and CentOS are not a good combination, in my experience. The Red Hat/Oracle feud doesn't give RH much incentive to be ZFS-friendly, and the interaction between DKMS and weak-modules is a fiasco.
ZFS woes, and Red Hat's penchant for yanking hardware support (like a PERC/4e RAID controller I encountered this spring), have brought me to the point that the only new CentOS installations I'll make will be KVM guests.
The last straw for me was the 1708 release, when the ZFS modules failed to build, leaving my home NAS stuck on the old kernel. Out went CentOS, in went Ubuntu Server. No regrets.
- vetinari 9y agoIn my case, Ubuntu makes PITA running stuff I want to run (especially FreeIPA/sssd/gssapi integration). On the other hand, I'm using kmod repo for ZoL, not DKMS, because I wanted to avoid having a compiler and dev packages on the server in the first place. CentOS/RHEL have kernel ABIs, why not use them.