Small differences (between ZFS and btrfs)

June 17, 2010 by Macbeth
Filed under: BSD , Linux , Solaris
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ZFS: devised by Sun Microsystems in 2004 for Solaris and FreeBSD, it is behaving natively to Linux, also includes Mac OS X 10.5 Server. Supports drives and files of 16 exabytes (16 million terabytes) not reaching the Zettabyte, where its name comes, supports checksum ECC, supports POSIX, supports snapshots and integration with LVM, supports encryption, the highest number of files is 2 48 is repair itself mirrored disk RAID 5 and RAID 6, no data is overwritten or references from or metadata, within the units ZFS file systems are created with ease to create directories in NTFS or EXT3. Any application without any problem associated with this filesystem, then pointed to discs 1 and 2 TB. Video of their characteristics ( in English ) and documents organized in addition to this PDF . It works very well with the compression algorithm LZJB .
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Btrfs: devised by Oracle in 2007 for Linux, support units and files of 16 exabytes (16 million terabytes), supports checksum ECC, supports POSIX, supports snapshots of snapshots and integration with LVM, does not support encryption, the highest number of files is February 1964. Some other features unmentionable and repositories of source code.

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6 Comments on The small differences (between ZFS and btrfs)

  1. Macbeth on Thu, 17th June 2010 0:25

    2. Ramses problems may have occurred to a partial solution to finding and reading this website

  2. Macbeth on Thu, 17th June 2010 19:13

    3. Just published the rc1 of OpenSuSE 11.3 support for btrfs file system.

  3. Rarok on Fri, 18th June 2010 11:49

    4. That what is being ported to Mac ... in 10.5 Server was supported and suddenly without a word he was eliminated in 10.6, so I rather doubt that Apple is interested in ZFS, probably will be preparing their own.

  4. ventejuy on Fri, 18th June 2010 15:25

    5. And Oracle is in charge of them. I'm surprised she has not tried to link the two developments.

    Regarding Mac For the truth is that there was much to replace zfs hfs +, but decided to stop it. Zfs really was not intended for the desktop, but hfs + would have been rather an update.

  5. Macbeth on Sat, 19th June 2010 16:55

    6. Discarding not know what ZFS in OS X Server 10.6. Thanks for the comment of renovation to reality.

  6. __TXC__ on Thu, 15th July 2010 6:14

    7. FreeBSD UFS2 supports a Yottabyte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte zfs lot more capacity, btrfs, ntfs, and ext4 filesystems including journal with gjournal and other features ... http://en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Comparison_of_file_systems

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