I did go with ZFS. One of the reasons is that I still occasionally live in Solaris-Land and it's about time I got more familiar with ZFS. It's a raidz2 array, so 6 disks for data and 2 disks for spares. Now begins the long arduous task of reacquiring the 6+ tb of data that I lost... On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Thomas Lunde wrote: > >> ZFS' scrubbing, checksums, snapshots, etc. have won me over. > > > It sounds quite nice, but I guess the use of the CDDL license has gotten in > the way of its development for Linux because the CDDL is a free-software > license but not GPL compatible. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL > > Apparently, ZFS was developed by Sun Microsystems which was bought out by > Oracle. So there is an Oracle version, called ZFS, distributed under the > CDDL, and there is a "truly open-source successor," called OpenZFS, also > distributed under the CDDL: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZFS > > I'm not sure how they differ. In this thread, when people wrote about > experiences with ZFS, were they really talking about ZFS or OpenZFS? Or are > they almost indistinguishable functionally and in terms of reliability? > > (Open)ZFS sounds pretty spectacular. I'm sure I'd love to try it. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >