Small Home server - HDD/SDD

[Edward M]

On 4/29/2014 5:30 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> My $0.02.  IIRC, I don't think ZFS is supported (or fully supported at
> any rate) in linux.  I just did some research into that and couldn't
> find anything recent about ZFS support for newer kernels. Granted, I
> could have just missed it. If you want to use ZFS on that box for data
> storage, look at FreeNAS.  It's fantastic.  Of course, it would render
> that box unusable as a desktop for the most part, but there are
> various Linux distros that can be run in 'jails' on it that may or may
> not work for your needs.
        Hello,
        Because of license incompatibility zfs can not be distributed  
with the linux kernel.
        However  a work around as been found by providing zfs as a 
kernel module,etc and
        ZFS for linux is ready for wide spectrum deployment; from 
desktop to supercomputers.



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