On Sun, Dec 28, 2008, Davide Cittaro wrote: > >On Dec 28, 2008, at 7:16 PM, 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. >> > >Even if fuse implementation of ZFS looks rather stable, I won't >suggest it in a production environment... >We strongly wanted ZFS and we chose for Solaris 10 for our file server. > >> 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 > >ZFS really is great. We are now managing three 18Tb archives. It is >not only reliable, it comes with zpool and zfs commands that really >make it easy to manage! >If you don't want Solaris, you can use FreeBSD 7 which supports native >ZFS. I would go with Opensolaris. There has been quite a bit of messaging on the freebsd lists on zfs that give me the impression that zfs on freebsd is not really ready for prime time. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The most serious doubt that has been thrown on the authenticity of the biblical miracles is the fact that most of the witnesses in regard to them were fishermen. -- Arthur Binstead