Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

[Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com>]

On 08/18/2010 11:49 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
>>> Clear now, thanks.
>>>  
>>>
>>>     If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong? 
> 
> Why do you believe ZFS is unmaintained?

That's Nganon's comment. I'll let him answer.

> 
>> Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
>> remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
>> licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
>> BTRFS on my dev box and the simple workout I gave it did not tax it in
>> any way--it worked okay.
> 
> ZFS has a very free license. This was the reason, why it could be ported to the 
> BSDs. So why do you believe there is a "license hurdle"?

Only for getting it to run on Linux. The CDDL doesn't play well with GPL.

> Also note: btrfs now is three years old. ZFS was started aprox. 10 years ago.
> For this reason, btrfs is expected to need another 7 years to readh the level 
> of stability currently seen with ZFS.

Might take even less!