[CentOS] ZFS magic (was: Backup Redux)

Fri Dec 9 14:11:12 UTC 2011
Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com>

On Dec 9, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:

> Vreme: 12/09/2011 03:02 AM, Mikael Fridh piše:
>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic<office at plnet.rs>  wrote:
>>> Vreme: 12/08/2011 08:31 PM, Alan McKay piše:
>> [...]
>> 
>>>> wondering if anyone has some recommended reading that is concise and to the
>>>> point, and will give me a good intro.
>>> 
>>> I read this when got interested:
>>> http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/ZFS_Fun
>>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfslast.pdf
>>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/docs
>> 
>> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide
>> http://blogs.oracle.com/brendan/entry/test
>> http://blogs.oracle.com/roch/entry/when_to_and_not_to
>> http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/07/using-mbuffer-to-speed-up-slow-zfs-send-zfs-receive/
>> http://blogs.oracle.com/realneel/entry/mysql_innodb_zfs_best_practices
> 
> Thanks for the links. Brendan's test is excellent presentation.
> 
> All I would ask now is that someone comment on ZFS implementation on 
> Linux/CentOS.

Fuse-ZFS still is at the enthusiast level.

I don't know about the other "straight" ports, last I heard they were having issues making the VFS layer map properly so it's fully compatible with the user-land utilities.

-Ross