It seems that ZFS On Linux reached a significant milestone, that is the software is stable to use on Linux. This is pretty useful and significant for the preservation and archivists community as it provides a more reliable platform to build on. The LLNL guys must really want to mitigate against silent data failures in their systems (they’re running Lustre on top of ZFS).
If ZFS is trustable or not we will know over time. At least with ZFS’s data protection features we will see less issues with silent data corruption.
If one could build glusterfs or better yet, Ceph on top of ZFS it would be pretty desirable.
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