On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
If you want to use ZFS because of its features, take a look at btrfs.
> If you really want ZFS, I would highly recommend looking into
> FreeBSD (Postgresql works great on it) or if you want to stick with Linux,
> look into mdadm with LVM or some other filesystem solution.
It provides a lot of the stuff supported by ZFS with usually better
performance on linux - and since the last few kernel revisions it is
finally in a state where I would dare to use it in production.
If you need highest performance, don't use a copy-on-write filesystem
like ZFS or btrfs, stick to ext4 or XFS ;)
Regards, Clemens
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Do you have any personal experience with BTRFS for a couple of weeks in production or any official statement/case study ? On the FAQ, it says it is still experimental (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ), though it may just be outdated. There is also these two links that would make me very cautious (as I am with ZFS on Linux, mind you):
Sébastien