I was not aware of that... I went with FUSE to test the deduplication feature of ZFS. I'll check out this link you've provided, many thanks Dave. :)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 15:48, Dave McGuire <mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote: > On 08/19/2011 02:45 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote: > >> I'm testing out ZFS-fuse on my new install (talked about it on the other >> thread), no issues so far. The builtin deduplication and compression sure >> do >> help a lot, roughly 30% less storage space required so far. >> >> They don't advertise it as exactly "production" quality, but I'm willing >> to >> try it out, we're doing regular backups. The mail system hasn't gone live >> yet though, so I'm a bit uneasy on the performance side of things under >> heavy load. >> > > You are aware that there's a real in-kernel ZFS implementation under Linux > now, right? See http://zfsonlinux.org/. I've done some very basic > testing with it, and so far, it works. Going through FUSE is slower than > pissing tar; this implementation won't have that problem. > > FUSE is useful for many things. Performance-sensitive filesystems on > production servers is oh-so-NOT one of them. ;) > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL >
