
NO thanks: I really had bad times sharing the same volume ZFS v5000 between the 2 OSes. Anyway the bottleneck is the ethernet.Ĭopy via NFS/sftp arcfour: ~10Mb/s Interoperability Software: Linux kernel 3.8 on Ubuntu 12.04.3, FreeNAS/Freebsd 9.1Īnd ~37Mb/s with ext4. Hardware: Intel dual core E8400, 4Gb ram, Hard Disk WDC_WD15EARS I didn’t find a more scientific comparison, so this is my basic performance test with the “time command” repeated 3 times. The Benchmark: copy a ~8gb file locally and via ethernet
OPENZFS V5000 INSTALL
It means when You install the OS for the first time You’ll have to add a repository and download the ZFS drivers. Linux: The ZFS on Linux project is very active and it is also used in production but ZFS will never ship with the Linux Kernel or in a distro because incompatibilities in the license. ZFS supportįreebsd/FreeNAS: The support of the ZFS filesystem isn’t new anymore and You get it out-of-the-box. Ubuntu: It is a well known Desktop and Server GNU/Linux OS. It is managed mainly via a local Web UI and it simplify a lot all the File Server related tasks. A quick look FreeNAS vs UbuntuįreeNAS: it is an ad-hoc OS based on FreeBSD to build a full-featured File Server. I don’t want to bore you why ZFS is the coolest filesystem ( features), this is just a recap of my experience with OpenZFS on Linux and Freebsd/Freenas in a Desktop and Home Server perspective.Ĥ years ago OpenSolaris released Nautilus with TimeSlicer, an efficient “Time machine” for your files and your backups, but since then a lot of things changed: Oracle acquired Sun, OpenSolaris is dead and in 2013 the communities interested in ZFS Open Source, Illumos, Freebsd, ZFS on Linux, merged the efforts in OpenZFS project (aka ZFS v5000 and beyond). SPI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which handles our donations, finances, and legal holdings.Menu ZFS on Ubuntu vs Freenas 27 September 2013 on linux, zfs, openzfs, freenas
OPENZFS V5000 SOFTWARE
OpenZFS is an associated project of SPI ( Software in the Public Interest). We accept donations to cover our ongoing costs. Detailed subsystem/feature blogs, on-disk format specifications: Developer Resources Donate A monthly OpenZFS Leadership Meeting Zoom call to discussion active developmentĪ non-exhaustive list of OpenZFS features OpenZFS Technical Resourcesįeature Details.


Efficient local or remote replication - send only changed blocks with ZFS send and receive.Efficient storage with snapshots and copy-on-write clones.Space-saving with transparent compression using LZ4, GZIP or ZSTD.Support for high storage capacities - up to 256 trillion yobibytes (2^128 bytes).Data redundancy with mirroring, RAID-Z1/2/3.
OPENZFS V5000 VERIFICATION
