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Have you seen Linus Torvalds' comments on ZFS from 2020? https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841&ref=itsfoss.com https://www.real

Have you seen Linus Torvalds' comments on ZFS from 2020? https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189841&ref=itsfoss.com https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost... ".. there is no way I can merge any of the ZFS efforts until I get an official letter from Oracle that is signed by their main legal counsel or preferably by Larry Ellison himself .. Don't use ZFS. It's that simple. It was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel, and the licensing issues just make it a non-starter for me. .. The benchmarks I've seen do not make ZFS look all that great. And as far as I can tell, it has no real maintenance behind it either any more, so from a long-term stability standpoint, why would you ever want to use it in the first place?" BTRFS: RedHat has removed all support for BTRFS and deprecated it: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/197643 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/197643 BTRFS, "Linux's perpetually half-finished filesystem" by ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linuxs-perpetually-half-finished-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu... with many problems still unaddressed in 2021 dating back to 2009.

tombert 5mo ago
I definitely understand why he doesn't want to merge it in and risk potential litigation from Oracle, but I think he's kind of wrong about the rest of what he says. I don't know what people on Solaris use, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the Linux and BSD community is running OpenZFS, which does get frequent updates and has been pretty stable as a kernel module for quite awhile. My main server in my house is running a RAID-Z2 on Linux and has been for more than six years, and I haven't really had any issues. I run scrubs regularly and things seem to work just fine. I do wish that Oracle would give written permission to let Linux include it into the kernel, since I think it would make it easier to run ZFS on root (which I don't bother with, I just use btrfs on root and that's fine for single-drive systems, like a laptop).

tombert 5mo ago

I definitely understand why he doesn't want to merge it in and risk potential litigation from Oracle, but I think he's kind of wrong about the rest of what he says. I don't know what people on Solaris use, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the Linux and BSD community is running OpenZFS, which does get frequent updates and has been pretty stable as a kernel module for quite awhile. My main server in my house is running a RAID-Z2 on Linux and has been for more than six years, and I haven't really had any issues. I run scrubs regularly and things seem to work just fine. I do wish that Oracle would give written permission to let Linux include it into the kernel, since I think it would make it easier to run ZFS on root (which I don't bother with, I just use btrfs on root and that's fine for single-drive systems, like a laptop).