[scarmig]

ZFS is beautiful and wonderful, but my perhaps outdated understanding is that the Linux port isn't as stable or mature as it is elsewhere. Is that not true? Or is it that the advantages of ZFS are so great that people should switch to illumos or some BSD?

[oomkiller]

I haven't used the Linux version in a while, but as it's not a first class citizen of the kernel, I don't think it will ever be the same as a BSD implementation. In my opinion, if you're doing anything with storage, you'd be crazy not to use ZFS, even if that means learning a new OS/kernel.

[lloeki]

> the Linux port isn't as stable or mature as it is elsewhere.

Which one: the FUSE one, or the native ZFS on Linux under CDDL?

[Dylan16807]

I haven't used the FUSE one extensively but the native one kept leaking memory until the system was exhausted. (Specifically it did this whenever I messed with a large number of files, I'm sure it works fine for media storage as StavrosK says.)

[StavrosK]

I'm using zfsonlinux on Ubuntu, and so far (months) it has been solid. Granted, it's just for media storage, but it's fine.