Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:47:09PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > > So lets flip this around ... Why isn't btrfs enabled by default in RHEL... > I already wrote about BTRFS in this thread. I did some extensive tests of BTRFS and the performance is quite acceptable (close to hardware

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread Michael Tiernan
On 4/11/17 3:41 PM, jdow wrote: So I suppose the extended downtime while several terabytes of data are restored after it's loss due to filesystem malfunction is of no consequence to you. While not trying to dowse the fire with gasoline, I'd like to remind folks that data loss isn't the only

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread jdow
On 2017-04-11 09:44, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:13:25AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: But that aside, according to [1], ZFS on Linux was considered stable in 2013. That is still fairly fresh, and my concerns regarding the time it takes to truly stabilize file

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:23, David Sommerseth >> wrote: >> >> But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on >> the legal side and doesn't have a too good "open

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread David Sommerseth
On 11/04/17 10:30, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:23, David Sommerseth >> wrote: >> >> But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on the >> legal side and doesn't have a too good "open source karma". > > ZFS on Linux is based

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-11 Thread Jose Marques
> On 10 Apr 2017, at 18:23, David Sommerseth > wrote: > > But I'll give you that Oracle is probably a very different beast on the > legal side and doesn't have a too good "open source karma". ZFS on Linux is based on OpenZFS