[geeks] ZFS on linux anyone?

[Andrew Jones]

On 05/18/2012 06:48 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> I just installed the ZFS on linux kernel drivers on a VM I have laying
> around.  I got decent performance out of it even though the disk was
> virtualized.  I ran bonnie on it and saw 50-60Mbytes/second for reads
> and 30Mbytes/sec writes (not bad on the older hardware I was using it
> on).  I haven't fully tested it yet, like with snapshots etc. however.
>
> Has anyone been using ZFS on Linux for a while?  What do you think of
> it?  BTRFS will not be ready to go for some time, I think.
>

ZFS on linux, as it stands today, will never be backed by a major vendor 
because the license makes it impossible to distribute.

That's enough reason for me to steer clear.