On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 12:25:37PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 06:15:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
I wouldn't use Ext3 for a device that big. Why can't you use ZFS? or zfs, with the -dkms packages available for most distros, installing zfs and setting it up is easy.
Some fedora-using guy on #btrfs was running btrfs as a DKMS, with his stock stable fedora kernel. Dunno if that was a hand-rolled DKMS; I haven't seen standard btrfs-dkms packages in Debian experimental.
huh? you don't need a dkms package for btrfs - it's built-in to the mainline kernel, and has been for quite a while. zfs, though, is not (and probably never will be due to license incompatibility between CDDL and GPL) part of the standard linux kernel so you do need to compile an extra module. installing a zfs-dkms package is the easiest (and completely automated) way to do that. Oracle as the copyright holder on the Sun-developed ZFS could solve the license problem by re-licensing it as GPL or BSD (preferably BSD so that FreeBSD and Illumos etc could use it too) but that's extremely unlikely to happen. They're the main copyright holder for both of the current modern/advanced filesystems for unix & linux - zfs and btrfs - and seem to have lost interest in both of them. btrfs is GPL and development is within the linux kernel (and fusion-io, where the btrfs author now works). zfs is CDDL and illumos etc have forked it. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #218: The UPS doesn't have a battery backup.