[ale] ZFS on Linux

[gcs8]

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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