Re: [clug-talk] NAS

2011-06-04 Thread Cody Swanson
Yeah, there are some user space implementations of ZFS in Linux but I wouldn't bother. If you want to use ZFS you should run Solaris (open solaris, nexenta, solaris express etc) or FreeBSD which both have native support for ZFS. Nexenta offers a free version of their appliance OS if that's your

Re: [clug-talk] NAS

2011-06-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Mel Walters said the following on 6/4/2011 6:03 PM: > > Is the perceived licence conflict between Linux GPL and ZFS still a > factor? Yes. ZFS isn't GPL compatible still. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer __

Re: [clug-talk] NAS

2011-06-04 Thread Mel Walters
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 08:02 -0600, Cody Swanson wrote: > On 6/4/2011 12:05 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > I would stay far far away from ZFS if you care about the data you are > > storing. Best of luck to you if your data is on ZFS *when* something > > bad happens (because it will, eventually) > >

Re: [clug-talk] NAS

2011-06-04 Thread Cody Swanson
On 6/4/2011 12:05 AM, Gustin Johnson wrote: I would stay far far away from ZFS if you care about the data you are storing. Best of luck to you if your data is on ZFS *when* something bad happens (because it will, eventually) Care to elaborate? I've been using zfs both in production at work and