Feature added by: Di Pe (dipe) Feature #311030, revision 1 Title: Add the new ZFS file system Kernel module openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is very cool, ZFS will be available on Linux in a few days and it will have decent performance. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_kqzfs_benchmarks&num=1 http://zfs.kqinfotech.com/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: * ZFS is an Enterprise level file system that many poeple trust with large amounts of data (>100TB) * ZFS is much easier to use than the combination of linux RAID, LVM and EXT4 * ZFS supports checksumming which prevents bit rot. * ZFS supports compression and deduplication * strong support for ZFS will drive new users to openSUSE * Hardware RAID Controllers are adding a layer between OS and hard drives that can be hard to monitor with linux tools. * BTRFS is not yet ready today (it does not support RAID5 and is lacking many other features) * Ubuntu server will have it. Why would you not want ZFS? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311030