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The legal issues are annoying, but ZFS on Linux has been running quite well for years now. Not sure what the 'news' part is here.
by oneplane 9y ago
The legal issues are annoying, but ZFS on Linux has been running quite well for years now. Not sure what the 'news' part is here.
- greenhouse_gas 9y agoThe problem is that it isn't upstream, so having it as a rootfs is somewhat dangerous - you need a custom initramfs).
- oneplane 9y agoPerhaps, but the initramfs is custom per distro anyway, and since most of the stuff is package-managed anyway (at least in the RPM and DEB versions) it is no diffrent from say, a LUKS hook.
- rleigh 9y agoWorks automatically on Ubuntu. I'm writing this on a Linux system with ZFS on root which has worked perfectly for nearly two years now.
- kakwa_ 9y agoIf you are running a stable version, it works fine, yes. However, having zfs outside the mainline kernel is a bit of a pain. There are frequent breakage in kernel APIs, and the ZFS on Linux project always plays catch-up with these changes. Also, they have to maintain compatibility with various versions of the kernel APIs, and it's probably not an easy job for them. I know it's asking for trouble, but at home, I'm running a server with ZFS under Debian Sid (so basically a rolling release), and each kernel update is a little risky. Each time I upgrade, I pray saint Linus, but that's not always enough, it happens quite often that the zfs or spl module fails to build.