thanks everyone for your fair and balanced opinions and experiences! On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Davide Cittaro <davide.cittaro at ifom-ieo-campus.it> 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. > > d > > Davide Cittaro > davide.cittaro at ifom-ieo-campus.it > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >