topic Re: Compressed Filesystem Support on RHEL? in Operating System - Linux

Compressed Filesystem Support on RHEL?

Alzhy — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:14:35 GMT

Planning to do a Proof of Concept build of a NAS/Fileserver out of RHEL.

Does anyone know if there are already fully supported compression (on the fly) on the various Filesystems?

Looking at ZFS but the fact that it is still FUSE (even though stable and "fast enough") is a bit disconcerting.

We've other options -- like FreeNAS or OpenFiler but that is just unthinkable right now.

TIA!

Re: Compressed Filesystem Support on RHEL?

dirk dierickx — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:28:55 GMT

I'm not aware of any support for such a fs in RH. btrfs does have zlib support, but it's not in RH yet.

Re: Compressed Filesystem Support on RHEL?

Alzhy — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:28:28 GMT

Well waddaya know.. the rumours are actually true. LLNL finally makes it official - Native ZFS for Linux - not likely to make it to mainline though BUT at least it is not FUSE.

http://zfsonlinux.org/

ZFS Afficionadoes - Rejoice!