Hello Dennis, Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 3:33:08 PM, you wrote:
DC> Wide open question here. DC> If I have a server based on build 35 and am running with a ZFS DC> filesystem shared out via NFS am I safe to assume that there will be DC> no substantial changes to ZFS for the next year or so? While there DC> may be the occasional patch or minor tweak I have this gut feeling DC> that ZFS is production ready now and whatever will be released GA in 2 DC> months ( or so ) is substantially identical to what we have now. GUI DC> tools and management layers may be added but the primary functions of DC> ZFS are locked down. DC> I doubt that I am labouring under a misconception here but let me know DC> your thoughts. Someone from Sun promised that any changes to on-disk format will be backward compatible (and it actual just happened!). I belive that some new features like encryption, other compression algorithms or hot spare support will be added relatively soon. I do use ZFS in a production for quite some time (almost 2 years?) and if it's ready for production it depends on what you are expecting. Right now there're some performance problems (being addressed right now), I have a problem with a lot of small files (and symbolic links) - zfs uses more than 2x space than UFS in that case. Then on x86 there's still problem with zfs consuming too much memory and server starts paging. Then on x64 I have a problem with applications hang in kernel in ZFS (issued). There's still no support in Sun Cluster for ZFS. Then zfs lack right now automatic hot-spare but this is not that big deal. If you can live with all the above I guess ZFS is ready for you or you are ready for ZFS :) -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
