Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs 115
An anonymous reader writes "After hiring the lead Btrfs developers and Linux kernel block maintainers last year, Facebook is beginning trial deployments of Btrfs. Facebook will start using the next-generation file-system within their web-tier and they will be among the first major public deployments of Btrfs."
Re:Trial by fire... (Score:5, Informative)
Realistically, it would be nice to see the native (not FUSE based) code from OpenZFS be included as an alternative, but the CDDL/GPL conflicts likely will make this a no-go.
Well, isn't this your lucky day, then? ZFS on Linux works now, today, without the use of FUSE. [zfsonlinux.org] Nothing about the license conflicts prohibits use or distribution, just distribution together. I have ZFS/Linux servers in production right now, and they are quite stable. Starting with a vanilla install of CentOS, the instructions are roughly:
1) Install the yum repo file.
2) yum Install kernel-devel zfs
3) Start the ZFS service.
4) Start creating ZFS volumes....
A reboot isn't typically necessary... (though not a bad idea)
Btrfs definition (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I guess Minecraft will stop using it (Score:2, Informative)
While all the hipsters were using Btrfs, the real geeks were using ZFS and not worrying about bad designs such as the inability to query free space ...
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/... [kernel.org]
Re:Trial by fire... (Score:5, Informative)
> Personally I would be *EXTREMELY* wary of running ZFS on Linux.
So basically you are making an decision based on emotion instead of actual facts??
Try reading the FAQ next time:
http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html... [zfsonlinux.org]
Re:Trial by fire... (Score:3, Informative)
Check out: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_... [open-zfs.org]
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/20... [dtrace.org]
ZoL is very active and very up-to-date. All the versions and compatibility is in sync with Illumos (the main source of OpenZFS) and FreeBSD. You can create and move zpools between these 3 platforms seamlessly.
2 of the main founders and creators of ZFS itself (who used to work for Oracle and wrote ZFS) who now work for Delphix and continue to improve OpenZFS (started with the last open release of Oracle ZFS) in Illumos and have actually made it better than the now closed Oracle ZFS.
See how OpenZFS is actually better than Oracle ZFS now:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/20... [dtrace.org]
Actively adding new features: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/... [github.com] (Largeblock support to match the newer Oracle ZFS)
Etc...
Maybe if we pray to the ZFS gods Matthew will start implementing block pointer rewrite some day!
Anyways, OpenZFS is very active and kicking, and that includes the Linux port.
Re:Unfortunately, the GPL-compatible ZFS ship has (Score:4, Informative)