Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS:

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Jun 22 20:30:51 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
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>> In response the Josenildo Marques' message regarding Sun Microsystems'
>> announcement of the release of their new "blazingly fast" filesystem,
>> ZFS.
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>> Ten Reasons To *NOT* Use ZFS:
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> 
> [snip]
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>> 2 . ZFS does not support the necessary extended attributes and ACLs to
>> enable the implementation of SELinux security. Instead Sun prefers the
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> 
> [snip]
> 
> This sounds like a desirable feature to me.
> 
> Mike

 From the one ZFS site I read, ACL's are supported but I don't 
understand enough to say if they are extensive enough to work with 
SELinux but are supposed to be NFS4 compliant.

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Robin Laing




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