On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:14:25PM +0000, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:49:48PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> writes: > > > Wouldn't ZFS be a more natural way to do something like this? > > Possibly, but I have zero hopes of getting it set up and supported by > > DSA, so we can’t use it for this service. > > To address this specific thread, the challenge with ZFS is not that we don't > like the idea (I'm keen on it, actually) but that it's not in the Linux > kernel. > We prefer to use stock Debian kernels than custom-built kernels or modules for > our machines. > > Is there another filesystem (or another approach) that would improve > performance?
Funny that you ask. What's the usual competitor for ZFS? btrfs is included in stock kernels, doesn't take massive amounts of memory, and has a different approach to deduplication. Recent kernels are needed only for race-free deduplication, "cp --reflink" works in oldstable. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130830232112.gb16...@angband.pl
