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I'm glad you said "usually"

The first thing I do when setting up a filesystem is to set the mount options to full journalling - flash or spinning rust.

You can set journalling to writeback...

If they're precious, why do you only have one copy of them?

backups, backups backups.

Seriously: It's not rocket science. Loss of media should be an irritation not a disaster. If you don't have...

You wouldn't say that when your BTRFS or MDRAID-6 setup just utterly trashed itself.

I benchmarked things - and then I started deliberately breaking things. ZFS survives incidents which would have...

Ubuntu 12.04 server at home. See http://zfsonlinux.org/

RHEL5+6 at work - using ext4 and GFS there.

The home system is effectively a testbed to see what does and doesn't break.

I'm pushing...

Responses like this are not helping things.

There's a very active group of ZFS on linux users and we're all concerned about seeing accurate benchmarking. All the Phoronix guys need to do is ask...

Perhaps it was then, perhaps not now.

Oracle's largest installed base is on Linux, not Solaris. They know what side their bread is buttered on.

The problem with the code being released under...

It'd be interesting to rerun this using the native ZFS linux implementation (it's much faster than fuse)

As others have said, ZFS is a server FS. There's little point running it on a single HDD...

Not just Sandy Bridge. This just brought ongoing issues to a head.

I've been frustrated enough to recommend to our procurement teams that Intel-based hardware be avoided entirely until things...

At $orkplace (major UK university) we have had a LOT of problems with Intel desktop boards under linux - even thought they've been redhat certified (going back 5-6 years when our suppliers switched...