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On 15 December 2011 17:58, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Since ZFS in Linux can only be achieved via FUSE (ad far as I know), it
> is legitimate to compare ZFS and ext4. It would be much more competetive
> to compare Linux BTRFS and FreeBSD ZFS.
>


Er... does ext4 guarantee data integrity?

You're not comparing like with like; please do some research on the
point of ZFS before asserting that they're fair comparisons.

A fair(er) comparison could be ext4 with UFS+soft-updates.

Chris