On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 03:29:31PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Chris chris2014@postbox.xyz wrote:
Isn't fuse / zfs (partly?) in userspace?
I believe there´s two separate efforts to run ZFS on Linux. One uses FUSE, the other reimplemented ZFS as a loadable kernel module.
FC
Correct. The ZoL effort does not involve FUSE at all. Quite easy to install via yum as well (after pointing at the ZoL repos):
http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html
With that said:
http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#PerformanceConsideration
Have been running it at $DAYJOB and it's been quite stable. Can't really speak to performance, but haven't had complaints after moving workflows (which are admittedly not super heavy workloads) from HW RAID+LVM to it. YMMV.
Ray