[Enhancement] BRTFS RAID5 or OpenZFS Storage Pools?

[andjohn]

Alright! So, BRTFS is actually much more supported and ZFS is even a lot more set. Any chance we could see ZFS in fvdw in the future? Also, I installed 17 over top of my 16.1 and it was perfect, then I converted my Raid5 to ext4 and that also was perfect! Excellent job everyone. The next thing I have to try is getting a 5th disk and expanding the raid.

[Jocko]

The next thing I have to try is getting a 5th disk and expanding the raid.

If it is not yet done, I advice strongly to install the last rollup patch for version 17.0 before growing the raid.

Any chance we could see ZFS in fvdw in the future?

We need to study this point...

[andjohn]

Thanks for the notice, I probably won't add the 5th disk for a bit. I'll get some more information about both file systems and post it here.

[andjohn]

Ok! BRTFS has a lot of good things going for it:
1. Copy on Write!
2. Very Small Overhead, which would help us the most.
3. ZFS requires 1GB of RAM per TB of storage, so probably not a good idea.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... x412&num=1

[fvdw]

the 4.6.6. kernel used in fvdw-sl 17-0 has support for btfrs. To use it you will need to load the btfrs kernel module. If you use 17-0 this module is included in the firmware