Re: Partitioning >2.2 TB drives

To: silug-discuss <silug-discuss@silug.org>, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>

Subject: Re: Partitioning >2.2 TB drives

From: Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:09:53 -0500

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Oh very nice. I still don't know how much I trust it on Linux, but keep us informed how it goes.

I have been playing with BTRFS on my laptop and so far so good.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:20:46PM -0500, Casey Boone wrote:
> BTRFS is really still quite beta. ZFS is awesome... on Solaris or FreeBSD.
> I don't know how much I trust it on Linux just yet. Ext4 is just playing
> it safe. I would have went either Ext4 or XFS personally

So FWIW, the kernel ZFS driver from http://zfsonlinux.org/ seems quite
good so far. Granted the box I set up has been running for all of 5
days and change, but I have a 15-drive RAID-Z2 running on it without
issue.

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