Am 19.02.2013 18:01, schrieb Eric S Pulley:
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I feel anyone expecting to run any of the recently hatched filesystem on
10+ year old hardware falls into the design flaw category you mention. As
for needing to turn nobs to get it to work properly this is not necessary
if you use a modern 64bit box. Most of the tuning guides are written for
the guys trying to use it on their old hardware. Or trying to reach
"performance" numbers for whatever, usually misguided, reason. On a modern
amd64 box it pretty much just works.
Maybe I don't see the big picture, but I assume, if ZFS is opt in, and
not the default FS, memory consumption would only hit those who
*really* run ZFS on their boxes
As for a port to OpenBSD I'd love it, or port of LVM, but the biggest
hurdle IMO is the same one that plagues so many other good potential
OpenBSD ports. Getting someone competent and dedicated enough to do the
work.
I have to confess /me is neither competent nor dedicated, but I assume
ZFS support for OpenBSD hast to be rewritten fron scratch.
And by talking of ZFS, why not consider
ext3/4,reiser,xfs,jfs,ntfs,whatever-fs to be ported to OpenBSD?
Don't get me wrong, I would *love* to see ZFS in OpenBSD...but done in
an OpenBSD-worthy way!
I'm neither of those two things when it comes to porting, so I can only
blame myself that I'm using FreeBSD on my file server and desktop instead
of Open as I'd really like. However, I still have deep reservations about
trusting ZFS long term since Oracle closed it off to the community again.
I don't feel FreeBSD will be able to truly maintain the port over time. I
hope I'm wrong but we will see. So it may be for the best that Open
doesn't waste too much time on it.
Yupp, I think, that's (beside the CDDL part of ZFS) it the major
turn-off in any kind of productive enviroment.
At the moment I don't know how FreeBSD handles the ZFS development, but
maintaining a not-really-fully-ZFS besides Oracle is a no-go, IMHO.
Maybe forking it and calling it whatever-name-you-want-FS, would be
better (but would violate CDDL, as far as I can see)..
If you want to have ZFS, you will have to bite the bullet and throw some
$$$ on Oracles hive and get a fully licensed ZFS alongside with Solaris.
If thats not an option, move along and choose someting different.
So, long story short, I do not see any option to use ZFS on a free system.
