Subject: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? Date: Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:31:47AM -0400 Quoting Jeff Blaine (jbla...@kickflop.net): > [ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for you as ] > [ well! ] > > We're still a 100% Solaris + ZFS file server shop. We're EOLing > our Sun SPARC hardware (with tears in our eyes) this year. > > Before we spend a significant amount of time evaluating this, I > figured I'd ask first. Any brief response would be greatly appre- > ciated. The generously longer the better :) > > * Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers? > * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you? > * If you are, how is it working out for you? > > ext3/ext4 people: What is your fsck strategy?
I'd second the question about FreeBSD that was asked earlier. My personal cell runs vicep* on ZFS, 4 zmirrored 2TB SATA drives on an old Dell 2950 with 8G RAM. I also iSCSI share a few devices (around a TB, mail spool, backup spool, and scratch partition) from it. I'm very happy. Rock solid; as good as Solaris on X86 but Larry does not even get credit. Performance-wise, perhaps not super hot, but enough. The only important part is that you MUST NOT have a 32-bit kernel. Now, today, that probably is the default. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!!
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