Hello,
I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new) attached to a HP 580 G 7.
I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
Thanks, spuds
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Scott McKenzie spuds66@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new) attached to a HP 580 G 7.
I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
IMHO, Currently none can beat ZFS features. If you look in wikipedia, only ZFS has "YES" in all the columns. I've tried fuse-zfs, not bad. The snapshot works great. However performance is rather heavy. ZFS on Linux is worth exploring.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:56:52AM -0400, Scott McKenzie wrote:
Hello,
I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new) attached to a HP 580 G 7.
I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
Thanks, spuds
ZFS will be the best, but FUSE ZFS is going to be slower and native ZFS on Linux is still pretty young.
If you're tied to Linux and your users need absolute stability, I'd go with tried and true LVM. If they can be a little more tolerant to churn / downtime / adventure, the other options you mentioned could become doable.
If you're _not_ tied to Linux, take a look at Nexenta Community Edition or Illumos / Solaris Express.
Not familiar with your array, but if it does hardware based snapshots, might be an option as well.
Ray
Hello, is mandatory for you to use Linux? I am using FreeNAS to share ZFS volumes via NFS and CIFS and it works really great! Regards,
El 23/10/11 20:33, Ray Van Dolson escribió:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:56:52AM -0400, Scott McKenzie wrote:
Hello,
I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new) attached to a HP 580 G 7.
I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
Thanks, spuds
ZFS will be the best, but FUSE ZFS is going to be slower and native ZFS on Linux is still pretty young.
If you're tied to Linux and your users need absolute stability, I'd go with tried and true LVM. If they can be a little more tolerant to churn / downtime / adventure, the other options you mentioned could become doable.
If you're _not_ tied to Linux, take a look at Nexenta Community Edition or Illumos / Solaris Express.
Not familiar with your array, but if it does hardware based snapshots, might be an option as well.
Ray _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Look into XFS+LVM.
For XFS, you'll have to yum it via;
yum install kmod-xfs xfs-progs xfs-dump
This is in the centosplus repo.
- aurf
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Scott McKenzie spuds66@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new) attached to a HP 580 G 7.
I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
Thanks, spuds
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On 10/23/11 7:52 PM, aurf alien wrote:
Look into XFS+LVM.
For XFS, you'll have to yum it via;
yum install kmod-xfs xfs-progs xfs-dump
This is in the centosplus repo.
XFS is native in C6, you just need xfs-utils from Base