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ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…)

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 16 2017, @11:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-ones-and-zeroes dept.

canopic jug writes:

Stephen Foskett has written a detailed post about why he considers ZFS the Best Filesystem (For Now...). He starts out:

ZFS should have been great, but I kind of hate it: ZFS seems to be trapped in the past, before it was sidelined it as the cool storage project of choice; it's inflexible; it lacks modern flash integration; and it's not directly supported by most operating systems. But I put all my valuable data on ZFS because it simply offers the best level of data protection in a small office/home office (SOHO) environment. Here's why.

It's been a long road to get to where it is and there have been many hinderances, including software patents and malicious licensing.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:03AM (#540209)

    Never had anything like that with reiserfs3 that wasn't directly attributable to dying hardware. The extX however have been a liability from day one. Their recommendation of bitterfs when they stop ext4 was the main driver to move to zfs.

  • (Score: 2) by pendorbound on Monday July 17 2017, @01:56PM

    by pendorbound (2688) on Monday July 17 2017, @01:56PM (#540299) Homepage

    My Reiser3 dataloss was related to hardware (some monkey knocked the power off a chain of drives) (Where's my banana???), but Reiser took what should have been a few tense hours of fsck'ing and turned it into complete array loss. Resier3's fsck is dangerously bad at what it's supposed to do.

    Since then, ZFS, decent UPS, never fracking around in live machines' innards, and a semi-reasonable backup strategy (ZFS send to secondary box that's usually offline), and life's been good...