Yeah, I use ZoL for my home server (mostly pictures, videos, and mp3s) and it works just fine. SSD for the / and /boot, and then ZFS for all the important data in a mirrored pool. Highly recommended. (Just updated to 3.7.1 kernel and 0.6.0-rc13 ZoL, with no issues, in case you were worried about usage with "current" pieces.)
ScottE On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at>wrote: > Am 2012-12-28 18:52, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > > Hi, > > > > so in the Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video > > library? thread zfs was mentioned, since I just ordered 3 new hdd to > > replace the current 5 in my box (3 in raid5, 2 in raid1 > > configuration), I asked myself: instead of raid5+xfs or ext4 or > > whatever else that might be a sane solution, why not try zfs? > > Sure, go ahead :-) > > > But - there aren't so many first hand accounts on people using the > > spl+zfs kernel modules on linux. > > > > Anybody done it? Any caveats? > > I used it in a former server in my basement, right now the zfs-pool is > out of order simply because I have no SATA-ports available right now > (broken mainboard etc) > > It is the equivalent of a RAID1 mirror, 2 disks in a tank. > > As you may have researched already it is not necessary to partition the > disks, back then it was recommended to create the pool/mirror by using > the /dev/disk/by-id/ device-notation. > > That pool worked very well for me and even caught SATA-related errors > with the occasional scrub-run here and then. > > I even was able to migrate that mirror from zfs-fuse to zfs-on-linux > without any problems. > > As soon as I have a box with enough hdd-bays again I will re-import that > pool for sure. > > Good luck, Stefan > >
