On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: You might be asking why I didn't choose to make a ~19 TB RAID-5 volume for the native 3ware RAID test
That is really a no-brainer. In the time it takes to re-build such a "RAID", another disk might just fail and the "R in "RAID" goes down the toilet. Your 19-disk RAID5 just got turned into 25kg of scrap-metal.
As for ZFS - we're using it with FreeBSD with mixed results. The truth is, you've got to follow the development very closely and work with the developers (via mailinglists), potentially testing patches/backports from current - or tracking current from the start. It works much better with Solaris. Frankly, I don't know why people want to do this ZFS on Linux thing. It works perfectly well with Solaris, which runs most stuff that runs on Linux just as well. I wouldn't try to run Linux-binaries on Solaris with lxrun, either.