[CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

[Ryan Wagoner]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
>
> http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html
>
> If you have a little time and resource please install and report back
> any problems you see.
>
> A filesystem or Volume sits within a zpool
> a zpool is made up of vdevs
> vdevs are made up of block devices.
>
> zpool is similar to LVM volume
> vdev is similar to raid set
>
> devices can be files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>

Andrew,

I've been using ZFS 0.6.1 on CentOS 6.4 for the past 6 months. For the past
few years before I was using mdam with ext4 on CentOS 5. The main reason
for upgrading was snapshots integrated with Samba for file shares and
compression. So far so good.

Ryan