tags : Filesystems
FAQ
ZFS vs LVM
- LVM is a volume manager and you’ll need a filesystem on top of it.
- ZFS is both a volume manager and a filesystem. You can make changes later on as with LVM.
- LVM and ZFS should (probably) be not used together for double COW?
ZFS vs btrfs
ZFS on linux
For various reasons I would not recommend ZFS on Linux: “poor” kernel integration (with poor I mean it does not always integrate well; architectural challenges, not bad code), not feature complete (compared to *BSD/Solaris), eg. it does not support reflinks, (GPL licensing issues)
- ZFS on Linux and Amazon EC2 - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
- Because ZFS on linux has some issues, ideally (confirm status), so might just go LVM+ext4+linux
ZFS vs Ceph
- Ceph on top of ZFS => not much value
- ZFS on top of Ceph => can be useful, eg. zfs can help with compression
Related links
More on Ceph
- https://www.reddit.com/r/ceph/comments/mppwas/single_node_ceph_vs_zfsbtrfs/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/nhiebe/pros_cons_of_ceph_vs_zfs/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1317mon/zfs_vs_ceph/