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0 pointsnix234y ago0 comments

>Torvalds even said so himself.

Torvald's comment about ZFS was as uninformed as it gets...and he calls himself an FS-Guy ;(

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His comment was more on the wisdom (or otherwise) of running an out of tree filesystem. I think its hard to disagree with him. He went on to say you would never be able to merge the ZFS tree with Linux. Again he's the one who would know what code gets in Linux. His only actual comment against ZFS was that benchmarks didn't look great - which is unsurprising given all the extra work ZFS is doing wrt data integrity than other filesystems in production use.

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...

wang_li4y ago

From the link:

>[ZFS] was always more of a buzzword than anything else, I feel,

This is deeply ignorant. I feel that Linux has been handicapped by the fact that many developers have never done any serious enterprise administration and thus not having clear understanding of the needs of a set of their users.

nix23OP4y ago

Not everything needs to be in the Linux Kernel (and honestly i don't care if it is), looking at the past "linux-sound-system-tragedy" i would say, to make something outside linux is often much better (not 1000's different peoples who thinks it's better the other way around, and you are full of sh* anyway).

>His only actual comment against ZFS was that benchmarks didn't look great

What benchmark? Mines are looking pretty good, with a preheated Arc and with L2 especially...actually much better than any HW-Raid. Compared to Linus, there are Institutes with a bit more than a single 3GB git repository, and the crazy stuff...they need verified backups.

https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/zfs-lustre

If he ever has to improve a Lustre Filesystem of 55 petabyte with ZFS, he can come back, otherwise Linus...shut-up* and be happy with your ext4 (nothing against that one).

* A homage to the old linus-style of having a discussion.

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