In a project originally funded under Google's 2006 Summer of Code program, Correia has converted the ZFS implementation from OpenSolaris into a server or daemon program that runs on Linux.
Also, note that ZFS spawns a lot of threads for concurrent IO. So, enable NCQ (check queue length in /sys/block/<drive>/queue/nr_requests) on the drives if it is not set already. Invest into some SSD drive(s) as the L2 cache, which will speed up random IO ops tremendously.
During the last couple of weeks I worked with a customer who bought a Sun Fire X4500 server (you know, Thumper). The plan is to run Solaris ZFS on it, then provide big iSCSI volumes to the video editing systems, which tend to be specialized Windows or Mac OS X machines. Wonderful idea: Just use zpool create to combine a number of disks with some RAID level into a pool, then zfs create -V to create a ZVOL. Thanks to zfs shareiscsi=on, sharing the volume over iSCSI is dead easy.
ZFS is a new kind of filesystem developed by Sun Microsystems that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. Now thanks to the magic of Open Solaris, we have ported ZFS to the Mac OS X pla
ZFS snapshots with 'zfs send' and 'zfs recv' is a better way. Due to its architecture, snaphots in ZFS are very fast and only take up as much space as much data has changed. For a typical user, taking a snapshot every day, for example, will only take up a
At first I just wanted to see how much work it would take to port ZFS to FreeBSD. I started by making it compile on FreeBSD, and once I did that, I was quite sure it would take at least six months to have the first prototype working. The funny thing was that after another week or so, ZFS was running on my test machine
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