[CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

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Wed Oct 30 22:15:04 UTC 2013


On 10/25/2013 11:14 AM, Chuck Munro wrote:
> To keep the two servers in sync I use 'lsyncd' which is essentially a
> front-end for rsync that cuts down thrashing and overhead dramatically
> by excluding the full filesystem scan and using inotify to figure out
> what to sync.  This allows almost-real-time syncing of the backup
> machine.  (BTW, you need to crank the resources for inotify waaaaay up
> for large filesystems with a couple million files.)

Playing with lsyncd now, thanks for the tip!

One qeustion though: why did you opt to use lsyncd rather than using ZFS 
snapshots/send/receive?

Thanks,

Ben



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