ZFS file system

I just had a hardware RAID mirror's bad disk overwrite a good disk about 2 weeks back... I really wished I had ZFS on that box instead of the hardware RAID.

I use ZFS almost everywhere under FreeBSD and Solaris now and I am very happy with it: performance, ease of use and convenience later on when I want to add disks or change out existing disks for larger disks. We have honestly done both on at least 3 different occasions over the last year. LVM2 is a respectable new Linux technology, but it's no substitute for ZFS.

Putting 15 7200RPM SATA disks in a RAID-Z (5 arrays of 3 disks each) zpool and getting 500MB/sec and 3000+ iops is more than nice.

The only people who don't like or are not interested in ZFS are those who have never actually used it :)

Last I knew the only way you could use ZFS under Linux was with FUSE which is kind of crappy, though.
 
There is simply no driver for Linux - only that Fuse driver, and I doubt that I want to use that to store all my data.
 
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