Mike Gerdts wrote:
> Having worked in academia and multiple Fortune 100's, the problem
> seems to be most prevalent in academia, although possibly a minor
> inconvenience in some engineering departments in industry. In the
> .edu where I used to manage the UNIX environment, I would have a tough
> time weighing the complexities of quotas he mentions vs. the other
> niceties. My guess is that unless I had something that was really
> broken, I would stay with UFS or VxFS waiting for a fix.
>
UFS on a zvol is a pretty good compromise. You get lots of the nice ZFS
stuff (checksums, raidz/z2, snapshots, growable pool, etc) with no
changes in userland.
There are a couple gotcha's but as long as you're aware of them, it
works pretty good. We've been using it since January.
-Brian
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Brian H. Nelson Youngstown State University
System Administrator Media and Academic Computing
bnelson[at]cis.ysu.edu
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