[ale] ZFS on Linux

[Jim Kinney]

That sounds encouraging. I'll have probably 2 arrays. One with 15 1TB data
and a 2nd with 16 4TB SAS2. thinking raidz with a spare drive for each.
On Mar 29, 2013 4:43 PM, "gcs8" <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> I run a 20 2TB disk array at home and have rather fond of ZFS, its been
> stable for me for ~3 years now.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Ed Cashin <ecashin at noserose.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks in advance for the notes you take.  I'm interested to hear what
>> you find.
>>
>> By the way, work sent me to a Nexenta course in 2010 where I learned ZFS
>> stuff from Richard Elling:
>>
>>   http://www.richardelling.com/
>>
>> ... and one thing that kept coming up is how users usually reach for the
>> RAID-Z options when stripes of mirrors would perform better and offer more
>> flexibility.  I thought that was notable.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There was an update to this that just hit /.
>>>
>>> WooHoo!
>>>
>>> I have not used ZFS (minimal solaris experience) before but I have a
>>> situation where raidz looks like a very good choice. An external 16 bay
>>> JBOD box hanging off a SAS HBA looks like a prime candidate. The big issue
>>> for me is the support for native NFSv4 ACLs which solves some issues.
>>>
>>> As I go through this exercise, I'll keep some notes and maybe look at a
>>> presentation on doing this.
>>>
>>> hints, gotcha's, are very welcome.
>>>
>>> I did find a pdf of the zfsadmin.pdf  http://pdfhome.org/zfsadmin.pdf
>>>
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