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ZFS (or at least ZoL) doesn't scale well to NVMEs: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8381

comment by magicalhippo · 2020-01-10 · in Linus: Don't Use ZFS

…by such arguments. > It doesn't seem to be well-maintained. The last commit is from 3 hours ago: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits/master . They have dozens of commits per month. The last minor release, 0.8, brought significant…

comment by pizza234 · 2020-01-09 · in Linus: Don't Use ZFS

…with similar architectures) are the only ones that can actually protect against bit rot. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Checksums > And as far as I can tell, it has no real maintenance behind it either any more, so from a long-term…

comment by Seenso · 2020-01-09 · in Linus: Don't Use ZFS

…it was being maintained. This news would come as a surprise to the folks at LLNL who work on ZoL: * https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs * https://zfsonlinux.org/

comment by throw0101a · 2020-01-09 · in Linus: Don't Use ZFS

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Introduce Zstd compression to ZFS

story by networked · 2020-01-03 · 0 comments

…not encrypted It certainly can be (as of zfzol 0.8, and oracle zfs has its own encryption scheme). https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769

comment by e12e · 2019-10-31 · in Restic – Backups Done Right

…you can currently add and remove striped/mirror devices, but you cannot remove raid-z vdevs (ref: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/9129 ) - so there is definitely work left to be done in this area. as an aside mdadm has…

comment by lathiat · 2019-10-16 · in A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

…encryption, that's "just" encryption (ed: with zfs on top). (open) Zfs now has native encryption: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.0 (ed: there are some potential benefits to zfs encryption - it's as cross platform as…

comment by e12e · 2019-10-15 · in A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

…to "zfsonlinux" which is just the open project that ended up having the major mind-share). https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.0

comment by e12e · 2019-10-15 · in A detailed look at Ubuntu’s new experimental ZFS installer

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ZFS v0.8.2

story by turrini · 2019-09-27 · 60 comments

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ZFS RaidZ Expansion Alpha Preview 1

story by walterbell · 2019-07-29 · 0 comments

I still have this bug. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8396 Page faults from NFS client side aren't served by the server when they should (readonly map, reading a page). I could imagine this is related.

comment by cracauer · 2019-07-21 · in ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size

…don't want it in cache any more...but dumping 100% of it strikes me as a bug either way. :) [1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7820

comment by rincebrain · 2019-07-20 · in ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size

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zfsonlinux: Linux 5.0 compat: SIMD compatibility

story by new_realist · 2019-07-13 · 3 comments

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ZFS DRAID – Distributed Spares [WIP]

story by turrini · 2019-06-24 · 0 comments

Just to finish off @keeperofdakeys comments: here is the ZFS answer: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/becdcec7b9cd6b8beaa...

comment by zie · 2019-06-15 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

…TRIM support for SSDs, ability to remove disks from zpools, performance improvements, and more. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.0

comment by opencl · 2019-06-14 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

Are you referring to this ZoL issue https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8259 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-On-L... ?

comment by asn0 · 2019-06-14 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

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ZFS on Linux 0.8.1 Released

story by chungy · 2019-06-14 · 36 comments

There is a pull request for it, but seems like it's post-0.8.0: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/8044

comment by herf · 2019-05-23 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.0

There was a data corruption issue in recent history ( https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 ), but otherwise I’ve found ZoL releases to be very stable.

comment by nagisa · 2019-05-23 · in ZFS on Linux 0.8.0

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ZFS on Linux 0.8.0

story by grhmc · 2019-05-23 · 43 comments

current git works fine - 5.1 compat fixes just landed - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits/master

comment by nisa · 2019-05-07 · in Linux 5.1 Arrives

…after that, including booting into specific snapshots from grub. There’s a good guide on github: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-...

comment by josteink · 2019-05-06 · in File Systems – ZFS vs. XFS

…ships a fuse version that works fine. This is not true. A FUSE implementation is wanted though: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8

comment by Conan_Kudo · 2019-05-05 · in Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

…pick ZFS every time because of its … reliability, and being able to easily understand what goes on https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues?utf8=&q=is%3Aissue+... Panics and other issues are pretty rare for regular users that don't push…

comment by vthriller · 2019-04-19 · in Another ZFS Port on Linux

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ZFS On Linux v0.8.0-rc4 adds TRIM, native encryption, direct I/O and much more

story by turrini · 2019-04-17 · 1 comment

I still have a bad bug with those versions. Anyone else? https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8396 Basically, when serving NFS from a Linux-ZFS the client can read/write/seek fine, but on-demand paging sometimes fails (the same way it…

comment by cracauer · 2019-03-07 · in ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

…something a 1.0 release. Given that ZoL doesn't support reflink (ficlone/ficlonerange; see also https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405 ), and that ZFS is a CoW filesystem, that's pretty good reason not to have 1.0 release. In other…

comment by vetinari · 2019-03-07 · in ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

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ZFS on Linux 0.7.13

story by turrini · 2019-03-07 · 83 comments

(very soon) ZFS! It's happening: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases The PR started 3 years ago: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4329

comment by rb666 · 2019-03-04 · in Ask HN: What Do You Use for Linux Full Disk Crypto?

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/0c593296e98e3ac95f1... + https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/26a856594f731db6244...

comment by Arnavion · 2019-02-03 · in Debugging Emacs, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (2018)

…entirely from userspace. In fact, it still remains an open issue and a desirable target for ZoL: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8

comment by Conan_Kudo · 2019-01-29 · in The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase

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Mainline Linux inclusion – zfsonlinux/zfs

story by l2dy · 2019-01-28 · 2 comments

…cross platform read-write-safe fs beyond fat32! Encryption support should be on 0.8 (next) release: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/milestone/12

comment by e12e · 2018-12-20 · in The Future of ZFS in FreeBSD

…is, software will sometimes do interesting things if presented with so much memory. For example: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7275

comment by CaliforniaKarl · 2018-11-20 · in IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design

…is an interesting ride, from btrfs failures to "merging" (pun intended) those failures to zfs ( https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 ). FreeBSD has much slower pace of development and this is good for stability. Zfs is rock solid…

comment by _o_ · 2018-04-16 · in ReactOS releases 0.4.8 with experimental Vista/7/10 software compatibility

The author is a fairly new contributor: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits?author=sanjeevbage... What do you suggest that we should have done?

comment by ryao · 2018-04-10 · in ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

…"cp" implementation between 8.22 and 8.23 Reverting this commit causes the bug to stop reproducing: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/cc63068e95ee725cce0... [edit] An inspection of the following makes me think this is ZoL specific.…

comment by aidenn0 · 2018-04-09 · in ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

Regression introduced by https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/cc63068e95ee725cce0... , will be reverted and a new version tagged.

comment by JetSpiegel · 2018-04-09 · in ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

Looks like they're on top of the causes and solution. But there's a caveat: possible orphans. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401#issuecomment-3...

comment by cmurf · 2018-04-09 · in ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

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ZFS on Linux: Unlistable and disappearing files

story by heinrichhartman · 2018-04-09 · 161 comments

…for years, but native encryption being unstable means issues like this[0] would be showstoppers. 0: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/6845

comment by pritambaral · 2018-02-14 · in ZFS for Linux

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ZFS Encryption

story by based2 · 2018-02-10 · 0 comments

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An insult to injury, ZFS on Linux

story by turrini · 2017-11-23 · 0 comments

The problem is the license, which ZFS on Linux covers a bit here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/FAQ#licensing You can see some of the fun hoops you have to go through to get ZFS as your root filesystem here:…

comment by kawsper · 2017-10-25 · in ZFSin: A Windows kernel-mode ZFS driver

…on the ZoL github [0] solaris passes through errors from the hardware while linux retries. [0] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1256#issuecomment-1...

comment by the8472 · 2017-10-23 · in Filesystem error handling

…their perspective, and perhaps the ZoL project might be able to help address their concerns. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/FAQ#licensing [2] http://warpmech.com/?news=myth-busting-series-zfs-on-linux-h...

comment by yourapostasy · 2017-10-01 · in How to Use the ZFS Filesystem on Ubuntu Linux

…filesystem kind of has to be. Here's a guide on how to use ZFS as the root filesystem on Ubuntu: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.10-Root-on-...

comment by pmarreck · 2017-10-01 · in How to Use the ZFS Filesystem on Ubuntu Linux

ZoL[1] works fine here on production and LXC+Docker loves it. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs

comment by imhoguy · 2017-09-05 · in The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris