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Which OS should I pick for ZFS compatibility?

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:02

I'm in the process of building a new file server, and I want to use ZFS in a RAIDZ configuration with four 750 GB drives. The obvious choice is OpenSolaris, but I'm wondering if I should consider any other ZFS-compatible OSes, such as Nexenta OS or FreeBSD. I've heard that FreeBSD is not completely compatible, but that it's gotten better in FreeBSD 8.0. Nexenta looks interesting, since it's just the Solaris kernel with a modified Ubuntu userland. Does /prog/ have any advice?

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:09

advice?
go back to /g/ please
also as a system administrator whose dba is using zfs in production, i'd say it's still not ready for prime time

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:13

Solaris kernel with a modified Ubuntu userland.
*Vomits into nearest anus*

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:24

>>2
LOL luckily I'm not a DBA, just a guy who needs a place to put movies, TV shows, music, games, ISO images, etc. I'm interesting in ZFS because of the end-to-end checksumming, which along with RAID parity allows for "self-healing data." Sorry about the off-topic post, but /prog/ is the only board on 4chan I remember (besides the big ones like /b/ and /v/, but I don't care for the imageboards anyways.)

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:46

2 again
if you value your data i wouldnt use it yet, that is my point

my dba is using it against everyone's better judgement but the DB is replicated and backed up

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 16:53

>>5
LOL WAT? I've never heard complaints about ZFS regarding data integrity--that's what it's supposed to excel at. Most of the issues with ZFS are about shrinking volumes, removing/adding a drive from/to a vdev, etc.

What file system do you recommend instead?

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 17:27

FAT32

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 17:37

>>7
FAT's a joke. It uses linked lists for allocation! Linked lists!. Linear time doesn't scale very well.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 17:39

>>8
SCALE MY ANUS

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 17:43

>>8
Whay you just mentioned is FAT's least problem (realistically no file is ever going to exceed 131072 clusters, since you're going to use 32K clusters and you're limited to 4GB files).

BTW NTFS stores extents as a list too, but extents are hopefully large enough that you really shouldn't have more than 100 or so in a single file.

In any case you can always do some fancy caching in RAM if that bothers you too much.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 18:04

btrfs

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 18:10

>>11
btrfs, just like an usable desktop for Linux, is something that has not been released yet.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 18:27

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-10 21:00

>>12
Actually it is just like any Linux software; There's no stable version released.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-11 5:57

>>14
LOLOLOL 10/10 EXPERT TROLLING XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-11 7:14

ReiserFS!

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-11 7:45

>>16
nazi

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-11 8:19

* NinaFS

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-11 8:33

* NaziFS

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Name: Anonymous 2010-12-17 1:34

Erika once told me that Xarn is a bad boyfriend

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-03 3:33

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