alt Hacker NewsZFS is overrated and mostly a hobbyist/enthusiast thing.
Performance of zvol is worse than for LVM logical volumes. Last I've looked, zvol for swap is just asking for trouble, up to and including deadlocks. ZFS filesystems do have weird edge cases and incompatibilities, e.g. around free space reporting, quota and the like. And support with software vendors e.g. for enterprise distributions or backup software is spotty at best.
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jenders • today at 10:02 AM
>> ZFS is overrated and mostly a hobbyist/enthusiast thing.
Not true at all.. but most large object storage redundancy has moved to the application layer. There are still workloads that are a great fit but I agree OpenZFS is currently not well suited as a general purpose FS.
> ZFS is overrated and mostly a hobbyist/enthusiast thing.
As someone who originally ran it on Solaris when it came out ~20 years ago, and have continued to run it on FreeBSD and Linux, I would disagree.