On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Henrik Johansson wrote:
We are currently evaluating if we should begin to implement ZFS in our SAN. I can see great opportunities with ZFS but if we have a higher risk of loosing entire pools that is a serious issue. I am aware that the other filesystems might not be in a correct state after a serious failure, but as stated before that can be much better than restoring a multi terabyte filesystem from yesterdays backup.
It is not clear that the risk of loosing the entire pool is higher than other filesystem types. This is a point of considerable conjecture, with no failure data to base statistics on. What is clear is that ZFS allows you to easily build much much larger pools than other filesystem types do.
A 12-disk pool that I built a year ago is still working fine with absolutely no problems at all. Another two disk pool built using cheap large USB drives has been running for maybe eight months, with no problems.
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