On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:17:53 -0500 Christopher Barry
<[email protected]> said:

> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 21:42:25 +0900
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 10:25:04 +0000 Mick <[email protected]>
> > said:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 08 Dec 2013 01:48:18 Steven@e wrote:
> > > > >> Hello beber, just for information, you dont need FUSE anymore
> > > > >> to use ZFS.  zfsonlinux solves this.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for the info, but why should we need this ? I see no
> > > > > valid reason.
> > > 
> > > There are out-of-tree Linux kernel modules care of ZFSOnLinux
> > > Project[1]. Therefore using ZFS-Fuse is not necessary (or
> > > recommended).  At least one valid reason for using ZFS (there are
> > > many) is that it guards against fs corruption by using CRC
> > > checksums.
> > > 
> > > I understand that both Oracle (RHL) Linux and SUSE consider BTRFS
> > > production ready and Oracle will be/are using this instead of ZFS.
> > > From my limited understanding BTRFS is being developed at speed and
> > > catching up with ZFS, but it does not have the amount of testing
> > > that ZFS had to date to vouch for its stability/maturity.  At this
> > > stage in their development ZFS is superior to BTRFS in terms of
> > > functionality, although there is hope that BTRFS will develop at
> > > speed.
> > 
> > and why? ext4 HAS been production ready for YEARS... inf act not
> > production ready... it has been *IN8 production for years... if there
> > is a fs i would trust - it's ext4. not zfs and DEFINITELY not btrfs.
> > ext4 (and 3 etc. before it) have many more miles of PRODUCTION behind
> > them.
> 
> Absolutely. The other filesystems are amazing in their feature sets,
> but are not viable production filesystems quite yet in my opinion.
> 
> > 
> > what this probably was ... was an unstable bleeding-edge kernel since
> > the servers are being run on gentoo and thus are not exactly being
> > conservative. it was probably a newly introduced bug that hasn't been
> > hammered out and other fs's used less will have such bugs many times
> > MORE than ext4 will.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Gentoo is a great desktop distro, but definitely not a server OS (may
> cause a flame war here, but sorry...). For me, and I've been a sysadmin
> since Debian first came out (yes, that long), and I've used literally
> all distros at one time or another. Debian stable (or even testing) is
> an ideal server OS you can absolutely rely on. I would not use anything
> else. If you absolutely must use gentoo for some feature only it
> provides, then only use it in the VM - definitely NOT on the host. The
> host must be rock solid.
> 
> But, if rebuilding the setup is on the radar in light of this wake up
> call, the filesystem argument is totally moot - just use LVM for the
> images. It's the correct thing to do for a production VM host.

well beber (our admin who volunteers his time to the server and its vms) wants
gentoo.


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