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