[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

[C. R. Oldham]

For Ubuntu, it is an effort to get ZFS on the root partition.  See
these wiki entries:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu

I have several machines installed with these instructions on 16.04,
16.10, and 17.04.  They do work, but it's a pain to get it installed.

Note that ZoL does have a couple of limitations that can make it
challenging to use it as the backing store for KVM.  We have an
OpenNebula private cloud and some of qemu's caching options will cause
the VMs not to start, claiming the FS underneath doesn't expose the
right primitives.  I left the OS on ZFS on those machines and
converted the partitions where the VMs keep their disks to XFS.

--cro



On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Andrew Gabriel
<illumos at cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> That would be any Illumos-based distro, FreeBSD (and FreeNAS), Ubuntu, and
> maybe Gentoo.
>
> I looked on the Oracle Linux web pages and blog, and there's no mention of
> ZFS anywhere.
> The Oracle Linux folks were very anti ZFS because they developed BTRFS and
> saw ZFS as a competitor, although I think the BTRFS development team is now
> mainly at Facebook.
>
> On 21/04/2017 19:12, David Johnson wrote:
>>
>> I might be using the wrong terminology, but by "native" I meant without
>> doing any extra
>> work. Some of the operating systems in your link are rumored to not work
>> out
>> of the box. An Oracle tech support rep. is the one who told me about the
>> native support for ZFS in Oracle Linux.
>>
>> On 04/21/17 11:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21/04/2017 18:24, David Johnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on
>>>> Openindiana
>>>> vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I
>>>> want to
>>>> have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to get updated
>>>> security patches.
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not aware that Oracle Linux has native ZFS support at all.
>>> However, there are more than you mentioned - see
>>> http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions
>>>
>>
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