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filesystems - ZFS alternative for Linux?

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I'm running OpenSolaris
with ZFS for my main fileserver. I originally went with ZFS because I heard so many
awesome things about
it:




  • Automatic disk
    spanning (zpools)

  • Software RAID
    (RAID-Z)

  • Automatic pool resizing by replacing RAIDZ'd
    disks

  • Block-level
    checksumming

  • No practical single-volume
    limits

  • "Coming Soon"
    deduplication




After
poking at OpenSolaris for a while, it really bugs me. I know Fedora/CentOS and
Debian/Ubuntu far better, and I'm used to the Linux way of doing stuff vs the
Solaris/BSD version. I want to switch to Linux, but I don't know what to use for my
FS.



I'm not willing to use FUSE or a pre-beta
kernel to get ZFS. Btrfs has potential feature parity, but it's still not stable even
now (months after I first looked into it). What do you recommend as an equivalent of ZFS
(desired features noted above) for a Linux box?


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Have you
considered NexentaStor or Nexenta core? It's actively developed now that the OpenSolaris
project's fate is unknown. Nexenta is also more GNU-like. The Nexenta Community edition
is a good appliance-like implementation which leverages ZFS features and provides an
excellent GUI. The Nexenta core is a stripped-down variant that's essentially a more
usable OpenSolaris.



See: href="http://nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/WhyNexenta" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">http://nexenta.org/projects/site/wiki/WhyNexenta



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