I've been running ZFS under FreeBSD which is experimental, and i've had nothing but great luck....so i guess it depeneds on a number of things. I went with FreeBSD because the hardware i had wasn't supported in solaris....i expected problems but honestly, it's been rock solid....it's survived all kinds of things...power failures, a drive failure, partial drive failure and a power supply dying... I'm running 3 raidz1 VDEVS all with 1TB drives. I've asked in the FreeBSD forums for "horror stories" because i see SO many on this thread but so far, noone has has ANYTHING bad to say about ZFS in FreeBSD.
I'm sure this is somewhat due to the fact that it's not as popular in FreeBSD yet but i still expected to hear SOME horror stories....From my experience and the experiences of the other people in the FreeBSD forums it's been great running on both "non-sun" hardware AND software. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Ross <myxi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Here's one horror story of mine - ZFS taking over 20 minutes to flag a > drive as faulty, with the entire pool responding so slowly during those 20 > minutes that it crashed six virtual machines running off the pool: > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=369265񚉱 > > There are some performance tweaks mentioned in that thread, but I haven't > been able to test their effectiveness yet, and I'm still concerned. A pool > consisting of nothing but three way mirrors should not even break a sweat > when faced with a single drive problem. > > When you're implementing what's sold as the most advanced file system ever, > billed as good enough to obsolete raid controllers, you don't expect to be > doing manual tweaks just so it can cope with a drive failure without hanging > the entire pool. > > ZFS has its benefits, but if you're not running it on Sun hardware you need > to do a *lot* of homework. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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