ZFS, your thoughts?

You can turn that off with 'nodelalloc'

Anything else? I'm not trying to be smart - I don't even like using ext3 - I'm just curious what your opinion/experience is.
 
koffiejunkie said:
You can turn that off with 'nodelalloc'

Anything else? I'm not trying to be smart - I don't even like using ext3 - I'm just curious what your opinion/experience is.
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What's your FS of choice? I've always been partial to XFS & JFS.
 
ponder said:
What's your FS of choice? I've always been partial to XFS & JFS.
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I don't have much experience with JFS. I still like reiserfs (v3). It performs better than ext3 in general and of all the recovery situations I've had, I've always had better results with reiserfs than with ext3. XFS has its uses for some things too
 
i used reiserfs for a long time because the guy who wrote it killed his wife. a little sick, i know.
 
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avert said:
i used reiserfs for a long time because the guy who wrote it killed his wife. a little sick, i know.
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That wasn't exactly proven, but that doesn't concern me. It's a great filesystem, and it's mostly maintained by SUSE these days.
 
koffiejunkie said:
FreeBSD are incomplete.
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FreeBSD is complete, it has been for a long time now. You must mean it doesn't run the latest version of ZFS, which btw, neither does Solaris. Few Solaris distros run ZFS v28.

FreeBSD 7 is at ZFS v14 fully implemented and functioning, FreeBSD 8 is at ZFS v15 fully implemented and functioning. FreeBSD 9 Beta is on ZFS v28 fully complete and working (low performance however).


I'm running ZFS on my NAS (FreeNAS), using SAMBA I get the following: ~65mb/s read/write (constant speed). Never goes below 60mb/s. That is with 6x2TB RAID-z1 (parity).

ZFS is easily the most mature of all the file systems that offer redundancy, deduplication, etc. I've done months of research on the whole subject before I decided ZFS is my only option.
 
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Gnome said:
FreeBSD is complete, it has been for a long time now. You must mean it doesn't run the latest version of ZFS, which btw, neither does Solaris. Few Solaris distros run ZFS v28.
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Interesting. That's not what I read not so long ago. But I'll take your word for it. I'm not going anywhere near it - don't like FreeBSD anyway.
 
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