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/* > -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/