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…haven't had any issues, aside from a pool migration bug which the maintainers fixed very quickly: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs

comment by errantmind · 2017-08-29 · in Farewell, Solaris

The rate of work and breadth of contributors to ZFSOnLinux is pleasantly suprising and impressive: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/graphs/contributors

comment by williamstein · 2017-08-15 · in Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux

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story by ThePhysicist · 2017-08-14 · 0 comments

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story by funkaster · 2017-08-14 · 92 comments

…was strictly speaking an openzfs bug that hit all the ports. There's another one, somewhat related: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/6224 which (so far) seems tied to using recordsize > 128k without either of the -L or -c flags on…

comment by raattgift · 2017-08-06 · in 832 TB – ZFS on Linux

According to OpenZFS's changelog for v 0.7 resilvering is smarter now: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.7.0

comment by gigatexal · 2017-08-03 · in ⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

…be incompatible with the CDDL): https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/are-cddl... https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/blob/master/OPENSOLARIS.LI... Also, the SO answer mentions consumer protection laws - but AFAIK they…

comment by e12e · 2017-08-02 · in ⁠Btrfs has been deprecated in RHEL

Don't know if you can use it on FreeBSD yet, but tcaputi added it to Linux here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769 Matt Ahrens approved the changes, and hopefully it'll get rolled in ZoL soon. Full disclosure, I work with Tom at…

comment by wspeirs · 2017-07-27 · in ZFS on Linux v0.7.0 released

…idea is the same. Seriously. Read section 4 of the CDDL[1]. It's only three short paragraphs. [1]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/blob/master/OPENSOLARIS.LI...

comment by cyphar · 2017-07-27 · in GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (2016)

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Release zfs-0.7.0 – zfsonlinux/zfs

story by Daviey · 2017-07-27 · 0 comments

Yeah I've been watching the pull request eagerly but not quite there :( https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769 Judging by the comments from today though it sounds like it will be merged very shortly after this release. So that's good…

comment by lathiat · 2017-07-27 · in ZFS on Linux v0.7.0 released

…a simple reproduder I guess that the ZoL devs are more than happy to fix or at least understand it: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs From reading the pull requests and issues on that repo I've got the impression that the next release…

comment by nisa · 2017-07-13 · in ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

…10+ cores should do tens of GB/s https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/472018/13333262/f... https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4330

comment by olavgg · 2017-07-12 · in ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

Fletcher checksums are very cheap and not a bottleneck. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4789#issuecomment-2...

comment by olavgg · 2017-07-12 · in ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

…sites when you google ashift=12, http://louwrentius.com/zfs-performance-and-capacity-impact-o... or https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/548 for instance. Basically, ashift=12 increases ZFS block size to 4K. Metadata use full blocks…

comment by gulikoza · 2017-07-12 · in ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

…PKGBUILD the OP might leverage that you can use other quoting characters, like sed -i 's,github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs.git,github.com/tcaputi/zfs.git,' PKGBUILD

comment by FullyFunctional · 2017-06-20 · in Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux

I suggest posting this feedback in the pull request. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769

comment by ryao · 2017-06-20 · in Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux

…on explanation of concepts than I'd prefer. [2] seems reasonably nice at a quick look. [1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-... [2] - http://kbdone.com/zfs-basics/

comment by rincebrain · 2017-06-20 · in Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux

…master Illumos repository ( https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate ). I know that ZFS on Linux ( https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs ) routinely integrates those changes, as well as making some of its own and I believe pushing them upstream…

comment by thatcks · 2017-05-21 · in TFS: A file system built for performance, space efficiency, and scalability

…our large container workload hasn't had the same luck. The issues I've hit are the following: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5814 https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535 Unfortunately, these problems stem from page faults…

comment by sargun · 2017-04-01 · in Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

…I am aware of. I'd be fascinated to hear if others are aware of other similar works. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/dRAID-HOWTO

comment by gbrown_ · 2017-03-23 · in Permutation Development Data Layout (1999) [pdf]

…the current cgroup is OOM. ZFS subsequently gets stuck in an infinite loop, and locks up. See: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535 I understand that a lot of ZFS works comes from LLNL & government funding. I'm not blaming them,…

comment by sargun · 2017-03-23 · in Bcachefs: “the COW filesystem for Linux that won't eat your data”

…mechanisms, and ZFS's dedup is...well, it's a four-letter word in a number of ZFS circles. [1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/405#issuecomment-50...

comment by rincebrain · 2017-03-23 · in Efficient File Copying on Linux

…- https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=zpool-features&apr... - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/blob/master/man/man5/zpool...

comment by tgragnato · 2017-03-20 · in How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)

Native ZFS encryption may become available soon. It is pending code review: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/5769 There was a presentation of this by Tom Caputi at the most recent OpenZFS Developer Summit. Slides:…

comment by zxv · 2017-03-12 · in Silent Data Corruption Is Real

…figures, like 20 GB [3]. [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-a... [2] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/9907cc1cc8c16fa2c7c... [3] http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2011/07/zfs-dedupe-or-not-ded...

comment by GrayShade · 2017-01-28 · in How Mail.Ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 To 32 PB

I've used this guide and it works fine: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-... It however advises to use blockid, not device-id, for mounts. Any idea if this doesn't apply to AMIs?

comment by josteink · 2016-12-30 · in ZFS Root Filesystem on AWS

…when a containerized process gets terminated by the kernel for exceeding its memory limit: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535 We're strongly considering using something else until this gets addressed. The problem is, we don't…

comment by otterley · 2016-12-29 · in ZFS Root Filesystem on AWS

cf. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/RHEL-%26-CentOS

comment by jlgaddis · 2016-12-29 · in ZFS Root Filesystem on AWS

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Crypto for OpenZFS is “good to roll”, audits wanted

story by blumentopf · 2016-12-26 · 0 comments

…in git, and FBSD doesn't support userobj_accounting or large_dnode from ZoL git master[2][3]. [1] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2438 [2] - https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3500 [3] -…

comment by rincebrain · 2016-12-25 · in Cohabiting FreeBSD and Gentoo Linux on a Common ZFS Pool

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ZFS on Linux Release v0.6.5.8

story by okket · 2016-09-10 · 0 comments

…work on Linux or FreeNAS. You need some scripting/external tooling to do the equivalent. See https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/2449 https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/zol-hotspa... I've had a few drives fail on my ZFS…

comment by dhess · 2016-08-25 · in FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System

…I've been reluctant to upgrade as of yet. Otherwise, ZFS on a home file server has been great. [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3808

comment by Zancarius · 2016-07-21 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

…-- it was like someone hit the laptop's "pause" button a couple of times per minute. [0]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...

comment by jlgaddis · 2016-07-20 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

…service, but ended up going back to ext4 due to memory management bugs. In particular this one: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/3645

comment by lfittl · 2016-07-20 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

…ZoL-specific, though 0.6.5 not having a fix merged for a while is slightly surprising. Just grab https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4833 and send/recv in safety. ;)

comment by rincebrain · 2016-07-20 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

…as you don't backup with send/receive. ("Silently corrupted file in snapshots after send/receive" https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4809 )

comment by tobias3 · 2016-07-20 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

Related pull request with more details & discussion https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4329

comment by mrsteveman1 · 2016-07-20 · in Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux

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story by turrini · 2016-07-20 · 140 comments

…zero hassle. FreeBSD is nice though. No harm in trying it out to widen your horizon :) [1] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...

comment by josteink · 2016-07-05 · in BSD vs. Linux (2005)

I did a brief write-up about this effect on the ZoL issue tracker: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4785#issuecomment-2... In short, if you want more consistent performance as the pool fills, disable metaslab_lba_weighting_enabled,…

comment by ryao · 2016-06-23 · in ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t

…that's generated is strikingly better, although not quite as good as the hand tuned code in e.g. ( https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4439 ). It may be interesting to compare performance, but given that compression=lz4 and…

comment by raattgift · 2016-06-16 · in Apple File System

…lately. Saw Ubuntu get behind it, even in light of Btrfs being available for many years now. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits/master is pretty active... It seems everyone at some point expected Btrfs to shoot ahead and leave other…

comment by rdtsc · 2016-06-15 · in ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t

There are far more than 2 people here: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commits/master I will admit that my contribution activity has been low as of late, but it will pick up again soon. As for the bug list, that is because basically all…

comment by ryao · 2016-05-26 · in Who Needs Git When You Have ZFS?

There is a DKMS package similar to the Debian one which requires just a single command to install: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Fedora However it is unlikely that Fedora will ship ZFS unless the license changes or is clarified by…

comment by rwmj · 2016-05-14 · in ZFS lands in Debian contrib

…the kernel version unless something turns out to be wrong. I put the idea into the issue tracker: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/4375

comment by ryao · 2016-02-27 · in The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues

…by commit count according to github's statistics and I have maintained that position for years: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/graphs/contributors If any of the other OpenZFS developers had a problem with Linux distributions shipping…

comment by ryao · 2016-02-25 · in GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux

…USB, ZFS is not at any disadvantage versus other filesystems. For what it is worth, I am this ryao: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/graphs/contributors

comment by ryao · 2016-02-20 · in ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04

…This ought to help prevent best-fit allocation from occurring earlier than necessary on SSDs: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/fb40095f5f0853946f8... That said, Delphix made changes to consider on fragmentation rather than space…

comment by ryao · 2016-02-19 · in ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04