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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 muon-catalyzed · · Score: -1, Troll

    ZFS stands for Zombie FS, an outdated disk management bloat of last century "enhancements" for spinning drives. ZFS fancy features only contribute to more unnecessary disk writes that are killing my modern SSD. A current SSD drive has it's own hardware level management, there is no need to keep some nasty write, log, index, trace, journal -- the write-happy file systems around, actually the plain old FAT32 is kinda rock solid compared to for example NTFS, the current #1 SSD assassin.