Am 28.12.2008 um 20:02 schrieb Les Mikesell:
Mag Gam wrote:
I am planning to use ZFS on my Centos 5.2 systems. The data I am storing is very large text files where each file can range from 10M to 20G. I am very interested on the compression feature of ZFS, and it seems no other native Linux FS supports it.
My question are: Is ZFS stable? How does it scale for very large filesytems, ie, 2TB to 9TB? How is the performance of fuse? I plan to use it on my archive server first, so data reliability is very important
Any thoughts or ideas?
I'd be surprised if anyone is using zfs/fuse/linux combinations seriously. Why not just run your archive server on opensolaris or freebsd where zfs runs natively? Or if you want to pretend it is a linux distro, perhaps nexenta http://www.nexenta.org/os or their commercial nexentastor version would work. They have a mostly-ubuntu userland running on an opensolaris kernel.
Even in FreeBSD-land, you'd need to run the very latest CURRENT. No advised for production.
Go for opensolaris or Solaris 10U6.
Regards, Rainer