[OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer@ktdreyer.com
Sat, 5 Oct 2013 18:16:54 -0600


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net> wrote:
> * Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers?
> * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?

The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our
fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on Linux are such a hassle.
It's painful enough to have to manage OpenAFS's kmod, and if we
started relying on ZFS for Linux, we'd be compounding that pain.

- Ken