ZFS on Linux: It's alive (LinuxWorld) [LWN.net]

ZFS on Linux: It's alive (LinuxWorld)

Posted Jun 19, 2007 0:58 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624)
Parent article: ZFS on Linux: It's alive (LinuxWorld)

Whilst I did find the speed of ZFS/FUSE slow in comparison to XFS, JFS
and NTFS-3G there is more to a filesystem than just pure speed. Better
error checking and tunable compression are just two. Plus, as the
article says, Ricardo hasn't yet started tuning for performance.

ZFS/FUSE is still beta, and some of the restrictions about FUSE based
file systems break some applications (like APT), but I still think it's a
pretty exciting filesystem.

I also think the great thing about the ZFS and NTFS-3G work (et.al) is
that the lessons learned about tuning filesystems for FUSE (and FUSE
itself) will benefit all comers, and that can only be a good thing.

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