Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:48:33
Message-Id: 4C6DB669-8193-4F91-BBB8-7D721A1170E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems by GMail
1 On 24 Nov 2008, at 14:12, GMail wrote:
2
3 > On Monday 24 November 2008 07:58:55 Roy Wright wrote:
4 >> W.Kenworthy wrote:
5 >>> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
6 >>>> Kobboi wrote:
7 >>>>> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote:
8 >>>>>> Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number
9 >>>>>> of
10 >>>>>> gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1
11 >>>>>> terrabyte
12 >>>>>> is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is
13 >>>>>> exported via
14 >>>>>> NFS and samba for backups and shared files.
15 >>
16 >> maybe ZFS?
17 >>
18 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
19 >
20 > But not on Linux as a kernel module sadly
21 >
22 > There's a FUSE implementation which is considerably slower (being
23 > FUSE)
24
25 IIRC the author of Linux-ZFS cites the NTFS implementation as
26 demonstrating that FUSE can produce quite acceptable performance.
27
28 Of course, maybe performance of NTFS would be better were it a kernel
29 module, but I get the strong impression Linux-ZFS is poor because it
30 doesn't have the developer resources needed to improve it.
31
32 Stroller.