[OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Jason C. Wells
Amongst UFS2, EXT3, and ZFS, which is most recommended for use as a backing store for AFS? Which for the AFS client cache? I am considering adopting ZFS. I have read some favorable comments in the archives about ZFS. Is there a killer feature that makes ZFS suitable/unsuitable for AFS use?

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 10:01:22 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Amongst UFS2, EXT3, and ZFS, which is most recommended for use as a backing store for AFS? UFS2 and ZFS are Solaris, EXT3 is Linux. What is your server OS? Which for the AFS client cache? That depends on your client OS. I am

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Jason C. Wells
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So your server OS is Solaris No. My server OS is debian. My client OS are FreeBSD, debian, XP. Your assumption that file system suitability is determined purely by OS is limited. ZFS appears to ready for prime time on BSD and Linux or it will be soon enough for me to

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Christopher D. Clausen
Jason C. Wells j...@highperformance.net wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So your server OS is Solaris No. My server OS is debian. My client OS are FreeBSD, debian, XP. Your assumption that file system suitability is determined purely by OS is limited. ZFS appears to ready for prime time on

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 12. April 2009 18:15:59 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: So your server OS is Solaris No. My server OS is debian. My client OS are FreeBSD, debian, XP. Your assumption that file system suitability is determined purely by OS is limited. YMMV, but I would only use

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Jason C. Wells
Christopher D. Clausen wrote: Your assumption is that just because an OS supports a filesystem, that OpenAFS will support it for a client cache. This is not the case. Support for ZFS caches on Solaris does NOT mean that ZFS on Linux would work. I'd stick with etx2/ext3 caches on Linux if I

Re: [OpenAFS] Best Filesystem

2009-04-12 Thread Erik Dalén
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:01, Jason C. Wells j...@highperformance.net wrote: Amongst UFS2, EXT3, and ZFS, which is most recommended for use as a backing store for AFS?  Which for the AFS client cache? I am considering adopting ZFS.  I have read some favorable comments in the archives about