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This entirely misses the fact that zfs (open zfs/zfsonlinux) is open and cross platform. Which is almost more interesting than all the good stuff that comes wi
by e12e 7y ago
This entirely misses the fact that zfs (open zfs/zfsonlinux) is open and cross platform.
Which is almost more interesting than all the good stuff that comes with zfs (volume management, disk management, software raid-like functionality, encryption, snapshots, send/receive).
Its the first time we truly have a half-modern filesystem with safe write support and sane performance across many different os's. Even if just made dual booting freebsd and Linux this would be a fmgreat win imnho.
If the choice is between zfs and fat32...
- pm7 7y agoUnfortunately, FreeBSD uses different ZFS then Linux. Yes, it's crazy, but currently I think it is not guaranteed to be able to mount ZFS between these systems. Fortunately, FreeBSD is supposed to base their ZFS on Linux version in future.
- p_l 7y agoZFS is mountable between Linux and FreeBSD so long as optional features are configured in an appropriate way - this is a benefit of OpenZFS "version 5000" scheme. IIRC, one of the issues involves the layout of extended attributes. FreeBSD keeps to Solaris layout (which is essentially the same in concept to NTFS' one), while Linux for speeding up certain stuff (and because Linux can't use native xattrs to full extent anyway, due to using Irix API which is limited to PAGESIZE xattrs) has an optional feature to pack xattrs more densely.