I don't think I have seen this addressed in the follow-ups to your message. One issue we have is with deploying large numbers of files systems per pool - not necessarily large numbers of disk. There are major scaling issues with the sharing of large numbers of file systems, in my configuration I have about 16K file systems to share and boot times can be several hours. There is an open bug
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6850837 There has been no indication of a horizon for a fix yet as far as I know. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Lutz Schumann <presa...@storageconcepts.de>wrote: > While thinking about ZFS as the next generation filesystem without limits I > am wondering if the real world is ready for this kind of incredible > technology ... > > I'm actually speaking of hardware :) > > ZFS can handle a lot of devices. Once in the import bug ( > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761786) is > fixed it should be able to handle a lot of disks. > > I want to ask the ZFS community and users what large scale deploments are > out there. How man disks ? How much capacity ? Single pool or many pools on > a server ? How does resilver work in those environtments ? How to you backup > ? > What is the experience so far ? Major headakes ? > > It would be great if large scale users would share their setups and > experiences with ZFS. > > Will you ? :) > Thanks, > Robert > -- > 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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