[conspire] The practice of making ext4 a default needs to die an excruciating and gruesome death

[Tony Godshall]

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> I'm not usre who's maintaining the ZFS kernel drivers on Ubuntu,
> but they seem to be doing an OK job of it, most of the stuff works
> "as advertised". I haven't tried very many things yet, just the basic
> "zpool replace", "zpool scrub", and using rsync to copy stuff over.
...

Well, I've never heard of kernel packages-
due to licensing issues there are only FUSE
packages.  Or something has recently changed
and you will enlighten me.

Here's the package page for precise- they don't exist for prior versions:

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/zfs-fuse

Package maintainer is listed as: "Ubuntu MOTU Developers" (Mail Archive)

Maybe changelog will show more:

  http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/z/zfs-fuse/zfs-fuse_0.6.9-1build1/changelog

All I see are @debian.org addresses.  So I'm guessing they're just
grabbing the Debian packages as is.  Which is the normal division of
labor between Debian and Ubuntu- Debian works on the pervasive stuff
and Ubuntu works on appearance and ease of use and chipset support to
the exclusion of architectures and user interfaces outside the
Ubuntu/Canonical/Shuttleworth vision.

Oh, which brings me to... zfs kernel modules *are* available in
non-Linux Debian...

http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_FAQ#Q._Can_I_use_ZFS_as_root_file_system.3F

... but I haven't personally tried it.

> Anyone else trying out ZFS?

I have before and will again but I'm not actually using it anywhere
right now.  I suspect my next run with zfs will be as part of a
non-Linux Debian.

T