mahrens

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   by mahrens 12y ago

   As the author of that article, thank you. And, I agree it would be sad if you had to think about exactly how many drives are in a RAID-Z group. The entire point of my blog post is that you do not have to think about it. "TL;DR: Cho
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   by mahrens 12y ago

   ZFS device removal is on its way but not quite in illumos yet. From Alex's blog post: "We’ll publish the code when we ship our next release, probably in March [2015], [and we will] integrate into Illumos once we address all the f
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   by mahrens 13y ago

   ZFS is actually part of FreeBSD since FreeBSD 7, so you don't even need to install anything else!
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   by mahrens 13y ago

   ZFS on Linux large scale deployments: 55 Petabytes at LLNL http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon See slide 3; last slide has a little more detail. ZFS on illumos: Nexenta claims 1.5 Exabytes under m
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   by mahrens 13y ago

   You don't see Linus's viewpoint as contrary to the one on gnu.org? It seems like Linus is saying that the GPL allows AFS to be used with Linux (because it is not a "derived work"). How is ZFS different from AFS in this
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   by mahrens 13y ago

   The legal issue is a matter of some debate (see below). In practice, I don't think the Benevolent Dictator wants ZFS in the main Linux kernel tree at the moment. http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssu
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   OpenZFS launch(open-zfs.org)

   293 points by mahrens 13y ago|163 comments