From: Mike H. <mh...@gl...> - 2009-10-12 08:00:55
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On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:22:35PM -0500, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > ZFS talks to the kernel via FUSE (/dev/fuse). Every kernel already comes with > FUSE, so there is nothing to compile. > > ZFS is feature complete and much, much better than BTRFS. There is > checksumming and it is important because drives FAIL, sometimes deliver bad > data, sometimes the cable sends bad data and corrupts data, sometimes sectors > go bad and they take the contained data with them (happens all the time). > End-to-end checksumming is the best thing because it lets you detect problems > and fix them. It also has compression. Both of which btrfs has. OTOH, btrfs can shrink its volumes, thing that ZFS still lacks, and many other things. Oh, BTW, even people that did work on zfs development say btrfs is better. But that's OT on the fuse list. Mike |