[CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

[Eero Volotinen]

2011/4/6 Tracy Reed <treed at ultraviolet.org>:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:13:01PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly:
>> ZFS isn't GPL, therefore can't be integrated into the kernel where a
>> file system belongs, therefore is pretty much relegated to user space
>
> It can be patched in by the end user. So if someone were to distribute a patch
> which could be dropped into a current SRPM by the end user and a change to the
> SPEC file made to apply the patch during the rpm build the user would be all

Look at: http://zfsonlinux.org/

Currently best way to get zfs with features (deduplication) is
opensolaris (nexenta?)

Anyway, btrfs supports also compression nowdays.

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Eero