ZFS Design

Posted Sep 28, 2013 17:49 UTC (Sat) by peschmae (guest, #32292)
In reply to: ZFS Design by cortana
Parent article: The OpenZFS project launches

Having used both OpenAFS and the binary Nvidia drivers - which both are built by aforementioneds system - I can safely say that those two are the things that break the most regularly when upgrading my system.

They do so for a variety of reasons, starting with "Kernel too new and not supported yet". The situation seems to have improved recently, but its still not as reliable as modules that just *are* in the kernel.

I would hesitate format / with a filesystem that is due to break at the next upgrade...

ZFS Design

Posted Sep 30, 2013 15:28 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

OTOH you know that when you are installing a new kernel you should wait for the out-of-tree modules to be updated.

I can't speak for the distribution you're using, but in Debian the kernel packages have an 'ABI number' embedded within them, so when you upgrade the kernel to apply e.g., a security fix you know you won't have to rebuild anything, let alone have to worry that you can't rebuild due to an API change.