Hi list, we all know why ZFS is not included in RHEL/CentOS distributions: its CDDL license is/seems not compatible with GPL license. I'm not a layer, and I do not have any strong opinion on the matter. However, as a sysadmin, I found ZFS to be extremely useful, especially considering BTRFS sad state. I would *really* love to have ZFS on Linux more intergrated with current CentOS. From what I know (and I can go wrong, obviously), while the incompatible licenses prevent CentOS from shipping it, nothing should prevent to have a package for enabling *its repository*, better yet the kmod-enabled one. I was thiking to something as a ZFS SIG, where we can simply issue "yum install zfs-sig" and have the correct kmod-enabled repository enabled. I searched the list but I did not found anything regarding native ZFS. Any feedback on the matter is welcomed. Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8
Gionatan Danti wrote:> I searched the list but I did not found anything regarding native ZFS. > Any feedback on the matter is welcomed. Thanks.I think the simplest solution would be to add this (which I haven't tried): http://zfsonlinux.org/ https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/RHEL-and-CentOS to the Available Repositories for CentOS wiki page: https://wiki.centos.org/fr/AdditionalResources/Repositories/ unless someone with some authority says that you can't do this. -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>
Il 25-06-2018 23:59 Yves Bellefeuille ha scritto:> I think the simplest solution would be to add this (which I haven't > tried): > > http://zfsonlinux.org/ > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/RHEL-and-CentOS > > to the Available Repositories for CentOS wiki page: > > https://wiki.centos.org/fr/AdditionalResources/Repositories/ > > unless someone with some authority says that you can't do this.Sure, this is the simplest path. Anyone has a good reason to be against it? That said, I keep the idea that SIG would be highly preferable. Anyone is using ZFS on this list? Any ideas? Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8
Watch out, ZFS on Linux is not as good as on FreeBSD/Solaris. Just recently there was an issue with data loss. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 hth Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message -----> From: "Gionatan Danti" <g.danti at assyoma.it> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Monday, 25 June, 2018 22:19:22 > Subject: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux repository> Hi list, > we all know why ZFS is not included in RHEL/CentOS distributions: its > CDDL license is/seems not compatible with GPL license. > > I'm not a layer, and I do not have any strong opinion on the matter. > However, as a sysadmin, I found ZFS to be extremely useful, especially > considering BTRFS sad state. I would *really* love to have ZFS on Linux > more intergrated with current CentOS. > > From what I know (and I can go wrong, obviously), while the incompatible > licenses prevent CentOS from shipping it, nothing should prevent to have > a package for enabling *its repository*, better yet the kmod-enabled > one. I was thiking to something as a ZFS SIG, where we can simply issue > "yum install zfs-sig" and have the correct kmod-enabled repository > enabled. > > I searched the list but I did not found anything regarding native ZFS. > Any feedback on the matter is welcomed. Thanks. > > -- > Danti Gionatan > Supporto Tecnico > Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it > email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it > GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
But besides this issue it was in my experience rock solid. On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:40 PM Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote:> Watch out, ZFS on Linux is not as good as on FreeBSD/Solaris. > Just recently there was an issue with data loss. > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 > > hth > Lucian > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gionatan Danti" <g.danti at assyoma.it> > > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > > Sent: Monday, 25 June, 2018 22:19:22 > > Subject: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux repository > > > Hi list, > > we all know why ZFS is not included in RHEL/CentOS distributions: its > > CDDL license is/seems not compatible with GPL license. > > > > I'm not a layer, and I do not have any strong opinion on the matter. > > However, as a sysadmin, I found ZFS to be extremely useful, especially > > considering BTRFS sad state. I would *really* love to have ZFS on Linux > > more intergrated with current CentOS. > > > > From what I know (and I can go wrong, obviously), while the incompatible > > licenses prevent CentOS from shipping it, nothing should prevent to have > > a package for enabling *its repository*, better yet the kmod-enabled > > one. I was thiking to something as a ZFS SIG, where we can simply issue > > "yum install zfs-sig" and have the correct kmod-enabled repository > > enabled. > > > > I searched the list but I did not found anything regarding native ZFS. > > Any feedback on the matter is welcomed. Thanks. > > > > -- > > Danti Gionatan > > Supporto Tecnico > > Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it > > email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it > > GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8 > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Il 03-07-2018 15:39 Nux! ha scritto:> Watch out, ZFS on Linux is not as good as on FreeBSD/Solaris. > Just recently there was an issue with data loss. > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401I know; I was on the very same github issue you linked. While the bug was very unfortunate, ZFS remain an exceptionally strong and reliable filesystem. Let me ask again: anything is preventing to update the CentOS 3rd party repository page with ZoL repo? Regards. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti at assyoma.it - info at assyoma.it GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8