[ILUG] Large disk partitions

[Miguel Angel Vilela]

I don't know ZFS deeply enough but seems to me that LVM would be a better
option for production environments just because it's more mature, although I
expect it'll be so sooner or later.

Yet I've heard of it as a nice FAT32 alternative for removable drives, at
least at home.

On 6/1/07, Darren Kenny <darren.p.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think it's of much benefit via FUSE, likely to be too slow for
> most
> serious uses - but it's main benefit is as an alternative to FAT32 for
> mobile
> disks, since it's endian neutral (it's aware, but won't complain about it
> and
> handle it transparently).
>
> For the record, opensolaris builds should also have iSCSI support in
> there.
>
> Darren.
>
> Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > Miguel Angel Vilela wrote:
> >> I was about to say that very same thing! :D
> >> Does anyone when ZFS will be ported to Linux? O:-)
> >
> > It has been:
> >
> >     http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/
> >
> > I don't see what advantage ZFS gives over LVM + standard linux FS in the
> > original poster's scenario though...
> >
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