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Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux

Posted by timothy on from the crossing-the-platforms dept.

New submitter Liberum Vir writes "Many of the people that I talk with who use Solaris-like systems mention ZFS and DTrace as the reasons they simply cannot move to Linux. So, I set out to discover how to make these two technologies work on the latest LTS release of Ubuntu. It turned out to be much easier than I expected. The ports of these technologies have come a long way. If you or someone you know is addicted to a Solaris-like system because of ZFS and DTrace, please, inquire within."

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  1. Re:ZFS on Linux by Liberum+Vir · · Score: 5, Informative

    I haven't done any performance testing so far. My objective with this was just as a proof of concept, if you will. I'm sure, if you are having kernel panics and absurdly slow IO/transfer speeds, the developers would welcome your input to make it better. Personally, I prefer LVM and ext4 for most uses. Again, this was more just to prove that it could be done.

  2. Re:OK Howto article, but missing key points by Darik · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just looked at this article as my employer uses Debian and Ubuntu heavily and I've been pushing for ZFS on our file servers. There is no mention of ZFS version, the feature set available, or even a link to the source material.

    ZoL is based on ZFS version 28 from the last open Solaris release, and currently integrating Illumos as its upstream.

    There isn't much mention of how to use ZFS. I happen to know most commands, but I think this article would be difficult for a beginner even though it seems to be targeted at that demographic.

    It looks like the Slashdot editors are doing this blogger a favor by linking to a mostly empty article.

    At a minimum, this article should link to the ZoL home page, the ZoL Launchpad page for packages, and maybe the ZFS introduction or another tutorial.