Digital Wasabi

ZFS my one true love I've used ZFS at home since about 2007. Thats a long time for a technology. I have used it through Solaris 9, 10, 11, Nenenta, Illumos, at al. It is an amazing feat of engineering. Dtrace is another little thing i use, from time to time, on Solaris as well...but not so much in recent times. Time for an annulment? While I could say its been all roses, it hasnt. There have been issues with running third party software on solaris. FFMPEG was a beast in the early days to get compiled an running. I used my storage array for many things, and transcoding was one of them. I wanted to move away from running things like tversity on my desktop. I also wanted to get away form development on my desktop, so I started moving toward VMs for everything, which turned out to be the best thing ever....except for a few issues....USB support was shabby for awhile on virtualbox so deploying software onto a device was difficult (to say the least). Things have gotten better. I ...

I've completed my first zfs + snappy build. Its up on github at  https://github.com/techsaint/zfs-snappy . I tried to test it on my Virtualbox instance, but it doesn't look like there is very good VDI support for zfs. It seems to freeze when i try to write to a file system. I tried with the non snappy version too, just in case I mucked up something, but the vanilla version also froze. Now that I have a compatible version, I will test it on actual hardware, instead of in a VM. This build actually has snappy baked into zfsonlinux using the snappy-c library I found. If this route works, I will look at using the snappy-c port in an illumos build. I have all the changes out on bitbucket, and I did spend a few months learning the opensolaris/illumos build files....