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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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> ... until ZFS is native in Linux ...
> ... My meaning of "native" is that it is included in the upstream Linux
> kernel, not a side-loaded product/project/kernel module.

At least for BTRFS, "native" seems to be a bad thing. The BTRFS version that comes
with el7 is quite behind the current development version and unlike the "non-native" ZFS,
BTRFS is not packaged for easy installation into "my" linux. I guess I could run el7
with a "non-native" kernel. (but how is that better than running "non-native" ZFS).

In practice, it looks like the "dkms" stuff is junk (*for me*, it always breaks
between kernel releases - the problem it was supposed to solve).

But the "kmod" release of ZFS seems to work well enough. I do have to disable automatic
kernel updates, but that may be wise in some configurations anyway, YMMV.

-- 
Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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