Native ZFS in Fedora?

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Jun 9 10:44:56 UTC 2010


On 06/09/2010 04:07 PM, Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> In that case, you don't necessarily need a "native" implementation.
>> There is a fuse module for that already in the repo.
>>
>> # yum install zfs-fuse
>>     
> Aren't there some caveats and disadvantages when using fuse, and also
> performance penalty?
>
> If nobody does it before me hope to do it this weekend, and I'll post
> the detailed howto on my blog.
>   

FUSE certainly would have some performance overhead over a in-kernel
implementation.  It probably doesn't matter much since a lot of people
are using other FUSE filesystems such as NTFS-3G all the time. 

Rahul


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