Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote:
On 3/12/18, Leonid Isaev via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: What's wrong with btrfs? Yeah, I know it is not marked "stable", but this is just a label. And people shying away from it doesn't help in advancing its stability either.
It might be good for experimentation and possibly a desktop, but if you're actually storing a lot of files, you probably want a filesystem marked as stable. The fact that it is not marked stable implies the developers still think there is some sort of insufficiency. ZFS is known to be a world-class filesystem and could probably be considered one of the most system agnostic file systems now considering it is available on FreeBSD, Solaris, most Linux distributions, and even Windows and macOS. While the macOS and Windows ports are probably not at a point where they are suitable for widespread use - since they are still fairly new - you could at least mount a pool on those systems and read your data, the same can't be said for btrfs. For anyone not happy with dkms, the archzfs repo [1] offers great support for ZFS in binary form, and I've been using it for a few years now with no problems. [1] https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs -- John Ramsden
On 03/12/2018 11:07 PM, John Ramsden via arch-general wrote:
For anyone not happy with dkms, the archzfs repo [1] offers great support for ZFS in binary form, and I've been using it for a few years now with no problems.
The most important part of using zfs is installing it. Especially considering the reason zfs was mentioned in this thread was as a proposal that someone might want to consider installing it, the ability to actually do so would be nice. You cannot install an Arch Linux system on zfs, without the zfs kernel drivers compiled for your running kernel. You cannot build those kernel modules on the Arch installation media, without doing a full system upgrade and installing the compiler toolchain, while holding back the kernel itself and hunting for the kernel headers matching the kernel from the ISO, then getting the zfs sources and building that too. On a ramdisk overlay filesystem. Now, in theory the archzfs repo provides some archiso packages for exactly this use case. Except no they don't, because their archiso packages have not been updated since October... This is less than entirely impressive. They have rebuilt everything else, why not this? -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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