From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Olo1z-0008FQ-2z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B8FE1C010; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f181.google.com (mail-px0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049681C010 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi5 with SMTP id 5so565617pxi.40 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:10:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=D3I+pBJ70OKwc5JX7QWKuEIvlhByLNiM0cUxAQX15Jk=; b=CV5eM5pZB0zBdNAaKYFrurEVn6t0Yj2hhC2QMVZcC0won8ec8PYFp5TeuCEfGAPymv Jj3vnHfDR+Leh9xrd2cash9YRNjrE1te3NPKbE82+CLudohh+EvDFOw3+FDu3563N/6C jRy1Q5ngqDgXFm4clwtkELcGOXUdTDBRDJ3Bs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=bJvMcjUb3sa0/LTUq3DfS0MXRhU3Mh/rQljHuiF58g7fdfbt9METR4YfG0FQN5WqPa X6yVZQU+5ULFM6BTrWeULYiq+QAbFAb4+X5FsVBzjMwqrSYPT9qRDljiGR7StZXBJVCv PztU5QEyEBiGOH/3WoS5GG3SerG36THHOJO0M= Received: by 10.142.132.15 with SMTP id f15mr7460441wfd.14.1282158602216; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.12] ([209.20.133.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 33sm1015080wad.6.2010.08.18.12.09.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6C3006.7050307@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:09:58 -0700 From: Bill Longman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100817 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo References: <4C6A7D23.9030007@gmx.de> <20100818123424.1a1218b4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4C6BF3F0.6070803@gmail.com> <4C6C2850.2040007@gmail.com> <4c6c2b40.blKUSwt9m/Tv9V/r%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <4c6c2b40.blKUSwt9m/Tv9V/r%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f6184e9-d1a8-40e7-a8b7-909e5d5677c0 X-Archives-Hash: bb874a3ae1858560099756b2198603eb On 08/18/2010 11:49 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Bill Longman 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!