[CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?
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Wed Oct 30 22:28:11 UTC 2013
To be honest is not easier to install on server FreeBSD or Solaris where ZFS is natively supported? I moved my own server to FreeBSD and I didn't noticed huge difference between Linux distros and freebsd, I have no idea what about Solaris but it might be still similar environment.
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> On 30 Oct 2013, at 10:15 pm, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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