[mythtv-users] thoughts on a combined backend/NAS box?

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Jim Oltman <jim.oltman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I agree on the ZFS point.  It can really help to ensure your data doesn't
> get corrupted during normal operation (if you know how to use ZFS).  I'd
> stay away from ZFS on Linux for a while.  It's a different implementation
> than the Solaris and I'm not sure if it has all the bugs worked out yet.

The best open source implementation of ZFS is in illumos.  The FreeBSD
implementation is good, but has some issues (see the FreeBSD lists
for the state).  The Linux implementation, while an interesting first step,
suffers from some fundamentally incompatible architectural design issues
between Solaris and Linux kernels, and is likely to forever live in a
not quite ready for enterprise environment (due to its use of shims to
deal with licensing, and no enterprise vendor willing to take ownership
of maintenance of the core zfs code base).

The Linux way forward is btrfs.  On paper it has many (and more) of
the features of ZFS.  Its current implementation is not, yet, quite all
there, and certainly does not have the time on the street to prove
itself.  That will all, eventually, change.

Gary