On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Paul Kraus <p...@kraus-haus.org> wrote: > Over the past few months I have seen mention of FreeBSD a couple > time in regards to ZFS. My question is how stable (reliable) is ZFS on > this platform ?
ZFSv15, as shipped with FreeBSD 8.3, is rock stable in our uses. We have two servers running without any issues. These are our backups servers, doing rsync backups every night for ~130 remote Linux and FreeBSD systems. These are 5U rackmount boxes with: - Chenbro 5U storage chassis with 3-way redundant PSUs - Tyan h2000M motherboard - 2x AMD Opteron 2000-series CPUs (dual-core) - 8 GB ECC DDR2-SDRAM - 2x 8 GB CompactFlash (mirrored for OS install) - 2x 3Ware RAID controllers (12-port multi-lane) - 24x SATA harddrives (various sizes, configured in 3x 8-drive raidz2 vdevs) - FreeBSD 8.3 on both servers ZFSv28, as shipped in FreeBSD -CURRENT (the development version that will eventually become 9.0), is a little rough around the edges, but is getting better over time. There are also patches floating around that allow you to use ZFSv28 with 8-STABLE (the development version that will eventually become 8.4). These are a little rougher around the edges. We have only been testing ZFS in storage servers for backups, but have plans to start testing it NFS servers with an eye toward creating NAS/SAN setups for virtual machines. I also run it on my home media server, which is nowhere near "server quality", without issues: - generic Intel motherboard - 2.8 GHz P4 CPU - 3 SATA1 harddrives connected to motherboard, in a raidz1 vdev - 2 IDE harddrives connected to a Promise PCI controller, in a mirror vdev - 2 GB non-ECC SDRAM - 2 GB USB stick for the OS install - FreeBSD 8.2 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
