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

[Joseph Benavidez]

On 10/17/07, Dan Ritter <dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49:30AM -0700, Peter Loron wrote:
> > I'm going to be rebuilding my mythbox and putting in a 4x250 RAID 5 for
> ....
> > I'm seriously thinking about using ZFS for the RAID volume. Anybody have
> >  input on that?
>
> Not going to happen anytime soon. The current state of ZFS on
> Linux is not-very-functional experiment.
>
> The closest you can get is building a ZFS Solaris box as
> storage, and mounting that via NFS.
>
> -dsr-
>

nexenta looks promising if you want to build a zfs disk server.

solaris kernel (thus zfs availability) with the rest of ubuntu built
on top of it. sounds very intruiging...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta_OS

jjmb