Hello Wee, Friday, April 20, 2007, 4:50:08 AM, you wrote:
WYT> Hi Tim, WYT> I run a setup of SAM-FS for our main file server and we loved the WYT> backup/restore parts that you described. WYT> The main concerns I have with SAM fronting the entire conversation is WYT> data integrity. Unlike ZFS, SAMFS does not do end to end checksumming. WYT> We have considered the setup you proposed (samfs copy1 -> ZFS) but you WYT> will run into problem with fs-cache. Being only a copy, ZFS probably WYT> do not need much caching but will win the battle for memory due to the WYT> way its cache is managed. Unless there is a visible memory shortfall, WYT> ZFS will starve (sorry guys) samfs from memory it could use as cache. WYT> Also, ZFS's data integrity feature is limited by the use of 2nd hand WYT> data. You can limit how much memory zfs can use for its caching. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
