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Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS

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In Reply to: RE: Bit rot posted by Tony Lauck on August 14, 2012 at 14:40:56

You couldn't (easily) do ZFS on Linux 3 years ago but it was available on OpenSolaris. Times are a changing... This is from the ZFS Wiki, toward the bottom of the page where it lists various OS's and support for ZFS:

Native ZFS on Linux

A native port of ZFS for Linux is in development. This ZFS on Linux port was produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) for the operation of LLNL. It has been approved for release under LLNL-CODE-403049. As of June 2012, the port is in release candidate status for version 0.6.0, which supports mounting filesystems.

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RE: Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS - Tony Lauck 07:22:44 08/15/12 (3)
I am not familiar with these O/S details. However, at the time I got my Thecus NAS the ZFS file system was one of choices in the menu when configuring the file system. I acquired this system in October 2009.

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
- RE: Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS - AbeCollins 08:11:50 08/15/12 (2)
  ZFS was probably running in user space through FUSE which takes a performance hit and has other limitations vs a native in-kernel posix layer port of ZFS.
  - RE: Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS - phofman 10:03:50 08/15/12 (1)
    IMO the NAS used some variant of BSD, perhaps freebsd with native ZFS.Discussions on internet suggest so too.
    
    The famous FreeNAS platform based on freebsd is attractive mostly due to native ZFS support.
    - RE: Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS - AbeCollins 12:07:26 08/15/12 (0)
      Ah, could be. I assumed Linux which may not be the case.
RE: Native port of ZFS on Linux coming..... MacZFS available for Mac OS - telackey 19:31:05 08/14/12 (1)
Unfortunately OpenSolaris' future turned rather precarious around then too.
- True, as was... - AbeCollins 19:50:51 08/14/12 (0)
  ...the viability of the company that brought us OpenSolaris. I dodged that bullet through the acquisition. ;-)

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