On 06/04/17 10:54, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native
>> in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm
>> not going that path for production environments.
> 
> What do you mean by "native?"
> 
> The upstream deb and rpm files use dkms (as well as kmod for RHEL and
> clones) and Ubuntu ships zfs pre-compiled. This is "native" in my
> book.
> 
> I've used and am using zfs in production on Linux and it's good and stable.

My meaning of "native" is that it is included in the upstream Linux
kernel, not a side-loaded product/project/kernel module.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth