Quoting Erez D, from the post of Tue, 20 May: > > I didn't use LVM for a long time ... however, i tried using it as a > replacment for somthing like netapp, and encontered server freezes. > few years later i tried again, thinking it must be stable by now, and > again server freezes. The freezes didn't come that often, but i > disabled the snapshots in the end because of it ...
I didn't read about freezes, but I did read about performance hits and other problems, especially with zombie undeletable snapshots and such with anything below 2.6.16 (and here the environment demands RHEL4, bahhh) Zumastor - I'm still trying to figure out if it's production-stable, I'll ask around their IRC channel tonight, but either way their patches are only for very recent kernels, and if I use them, I'll do that on a separate NFS server I'll be installing soon anyway (and if Zumastor does show stability, it will be running on Debian. Otherwise I'll stick with "nobody got fired for using" CentOS) now I'm wondering what they use in http://openfiler.com ... seems like LVM2 over a distro called rPath (rpath.com), where I found interesting virtual appliance images to DL, where I discovered http://bongo-project.org ... man, this Internet thing is just full of surprises! I think it'll catch on... -- Twentieth century fox Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
