[mythtv-users] ZFS - what's the scoop?

victor rajewski askvictor at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 01:59:31 UTC 2007


On 10/18/07, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > is ZFS actually available for Linux now?  i didn't know that it was
> > supported aside from experimentally...
> >
> It is a fuse module so it runs in the userspace instead of the kernel.
> I did some testing a few weeks back and although it has a lot of great
> features there is one very big problem. Performance is very very bad.
> With a zfs filesystem on a linux software raid6 that nets reads at

Doesn't zfs include RAID-like functionality, making a RAID layer
underneath redundant, and inefficient?

vik


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