On Jan 18, 2008 7:35 AM, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sengor wrote: > > On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a > >>> production environment? > >> Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been > >> delivered. > > > > Few reasons - > > http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/11/28/is-zfs-ready-for-primetime/ > > The article (not the comments) is complete free of content and is scare > mongering. It doesn't even say wither this is ZFS on Solaris (vs BSD or > MacOS X) never mind what release or the configuration of the pool or > even what the actual "bug" apparently. Was the pool redundant if there > were bugs what are the bug numbers and are they fixed.
I don't think this is scare mongering at all. I wrote the blog entry after a ZFS bug (6454482) corrupted a pool on one of our production servers, and a yet unidentified bug (which appears to be different than 6454482) corrupted a pool on another system. ZFS is an incredible file system, but based on the fact that we lost data twice, I am somewhat hesitant to continue to using it. Just my .02, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
