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On 24 Nov 2008, at 14:12, GMail wrote: |
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> On Monday 24 November 2008 07:58:55 Roy Wright wrote: |
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>> W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Kobboi wrote: |
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>>>>> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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>>>>>> Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number |
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>>>>>> of |
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>>>>>> gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at any one time 1/2 to 1 |
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>>>>>> terrabyte |
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>>>>>> is unused, but mostly in scattered chunks. Some space is |
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>>>>>> exported via |
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>>>>>> NFS and samba for backups and shared files. |
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>> maybe ZFS? |
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS |
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> But not on Linux as a kernel module sadly |
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> There's a FUSE implementation which is considerably slower (being |
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> FUSE) |
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IIRC the author of Linux-ZFS cites the NTFS implementation as |
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demonstrating that FUSE can produce quite acceptable performance. |
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Of course, maybe performance of NTFS would be better were it a kernel |
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module, but I get the strong impression Linux-ZFS is poor because it |
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doesn't have the developer resources needed to improve it. |
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Stroller. |