The HELiOS folks, Connie, and I have been communication about this for some 
time.  So the quick turn around on our end is not unexpected.

I've just now posted the packages to sl-addons (x86_64 ONLY).

Thanks Chris!

Pat

On 03/22/2013 11:08 AM, Brown, Chris (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>
> Team,
>
> Attached is the YAML for the initial ZFS inclusion into SL addons.
>
> *Release Explanation*
>
> ZFS on Linux (ZOL) is currently manually added to HELiOS (Healthcare 
> Enterprise Linux Operating System).
>
> HELiOS is a spin of Scientific Linux created and maintained by the GE 
> Healthcare Compute Systems team (CST).
>
> HELiOS strives to be as upstream as possible thus including ZOL into SL 
> helps us better maintain upstream purity in HELiOS.
>
> Including ZOL in SL also allows the rest of the SL community to benefit from 
> our work with ZOL.
>
> **Release Notes**
>
> Core ZFS development started in 2001 with ZFS being Officially released by 
> Sun in 2004.
>
> Testing and evaluation of ZOL by CST has shown better performance, 
> scalability, and stability, then BTRFS.
>
> As a result of the maturity of core ZFS, ZOL inherits ZFS features which are 
> many years ahead of BTRFS.
>
> Testing by CST with ZOL on a proper hardware setup with proper SSD ZIL/L2ARC 
> devices has shown ZOL to yield better performance then both BTRFS and native 
> Solaris ZFS.
>
> Also performance tests of ZOL by CST has yielded better performance results 
> then running the equivalent  tests on Sun/Oracle or Nexenta ZFS storage 
> appliances.
>
> Additional testing by CST of ZOL has shown that when combined with GlusterFS 
> the results are a very powerful, redundant and almost infinitely scalable 
> storage solution.
>
> ZOL is the work of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) under 
> Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 (Contract 44) between the U.S. Department of 
> Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) for the 
> operation of LLNL.
>
> regards,
>
> *Chris Brown*
> *GE Healthcare Technologies
> **/Compute Systems Architect/*
>


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Pat Riehecky

Scientific Linux developer
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