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Have you had good luck with this? I'm running zfs on an open solaris server, but I hate solaris and would like to switch to linux. I never got the impression that zfs on fuse was stable enough to trust with all of my data.

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I use Nexenta (my ZFS build is described here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=794640 and here: http://blog.barrkel.com/2009/03/zfssolaris-as-nas.html). The nice thing about Nexenta is that it's an Debian/Ubuntu-style userland (the default install is console only I think, but that's the way I like it).

I put my homedir under zfs-fuse for a while. When I migrated to jfs-on-raid5 (3x160G) some months later, a small but nontrivial fraction of my symlinks had turned into 0-length files with 0000 permissions. Various things sort of randomly broke, which was interesting. (Mostly unimportant things, such as ssh not being able to read authorized_keys.)

I use ZFS under FreeBSD 8-RELEASE in a 6x1.5tb raidz2 (dual-parity) and it is rock solid. The benefit of running ZFS under FreeBSD over Linux is that you don't need to use FUSE, as ZFS has been really well integrated with FreeBSD's filesystem layer.

Would you mind writing up a tutorial. I am interesting in ZFS under FreeBSD, I have 8-Release downloaded and ready to go. Still working on getting the hardware up and running for it though.

Are you using 64-bit? I heard ZFS loves 64-bit.

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