>From the experience myself and others have had, and Sun's approach with their >Amber Road storage (FISHWORKS - fully integrated *hardware* and software), my >feeling is very much that ZFS was designed by Sun to run on Sun's own >hardware, and as such, they were able to make certain assumptions with their >design.
ZFS was never designed to run on consumer hardware, it makes assumptions that devices and drivers will always be well behaved when errors occur, and in general is quite fragile if you're running it on the wrong system. On the right hardware, I've no doubt that ZFS is incredibly reliable and easy to manage. On the wrong hardware, disk errors can hang your entire system, hot swap can down your pool, and a power cut or other error can render your entire pool inaccessible. The success of any ZFS implementation is *very* dependent on the hardware you choose to run it on. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
