On 04.08.2012 20:32, Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > >> On 08/04/2012 05:06 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> > Using BTRFS now is like using ZFS in 2005. >> > ZFS is adult now, BTRFS is not > ZFS is the best I know for filesystems >= 2 TB and in case you need > flexible > snapshots. ZFS has just one single problem, it is slow in case you > ask it to > verify a stable FS state, UFS is much faster here, but this ZFS > "problem" is > true for all filesystems on Linux because of the implementation of > the Linux > buffer cache. > > And BTW: ZFS is based on the COW ideas I made in 1988 and the NetApp > patents > are also just based on my master thesis without giving me credit ;-) Jorg, Given your expertise then, can you say how mature/stable/usable is ZFS on Linux, specifically CentOS? That's what everybody is probably most interested in. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro