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I think the biggest issues with using ZFS as a linux user come down to A) ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently. B) The license issue, so you
by xxpor 6y ago
I think the biggest issues with using ZFS as a linux user come down to
A) ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently.
B) The license issue, so you have to compile it as a separate module using DKMS, which means having a compiler, the linux headers, etc etc. No where near as low friction as just choosing ext4 or btrfs.
- derefr 6y ago> ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently. Sure, but the sort of people who need ZFS are the same sort of people who are doing their storage on a SAN, and so the sort of people for whom choice of OS (for the SAN itself) can be contingent on choice of storage layer, rather than the other way around. This is half the reason ZFS-on-Linux didn't have much momentum: most ZFS deployments were happy to just run BSD on their SAN, then serve SAN volumes out over the network (or into a hypervisor cluster) for Linux systems to consume.
- andoriyu 6y ago> ZFS-on-Linux was always behind BSD ZFS until recently. FreeBSD was never really working on ZFS in a way ZOL was. Whole reason for the switch is because main contributor upstream used by FreeBSD stopped using ZFS. ZOL had more features for a while now as well.
- asveikau 6y agoI think there is a reason the part you quoted was written in the past tense. The situation has changed. But these things have momentum and people might have adopted FreeBSD years ago because of the former status quo, where FreeBSD had it integrated in the default install and Linux distros did not.