Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

Dan dan-freebsd-questions at ourbrains.org
Tue Dec 2 13:27:04 PST 2008


Don O'Neil(lists at lizardhill.com)@2008.12.02 08:57:58 -0800:
> With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's
> really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization,
> speed, stability, etc...


>From everything I've read people use it in production successfully, but
not without some tweaking or testing.

That said, I would love to see XFS ported. IIRC you can't resize gvinum
volumes on the fly either, if that's the case, that would also be a nice
feature.

On Linux I can resize LVM volumes, and then resize a live XFS without
having to unmount it. Takes seconds.


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