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

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 21.04.17 um 20:06 schrieb 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.
That's interesting, Proxmox, a Debian based distribution, can use ZFS 
and run KVM on it.

Regards,
Andreas
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> 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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