From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 15:53:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9510A1065672 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 649B38FC12 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so2262548wfg.7 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:53:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=cA7XoHD72Bx88WEBTxHfClp8V1kkr4kzCenUnGWartE=; b=aHju7/c/T7wgY5StT7l0kETY/hvxRHCQMu6xItSoDLkiw0Q3XAZqCLLoTJcoXJ/7iF KryqWdg3WwTKiMN8hzrWXV/c75LphLYvwwps6FNhweCJddxSoZUwoh+hym0PXG5ny/xD KUoWp6ZD4cIIpglTQAAqVyOVTx0wJYIidMFU0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=f82iPElHBMmUgfw0dpWINh5cOgnpOTO8v4U+xElaGZ1yM9MapEcWeXiceuFcLiFRw5 Q7oS2ZTvvd2Q606pIDfblzDJ+hKeO+sa8dTk4oRRF5oOjyGLUOorAoVBR/hq+kGRRZr1 4gRuIp9hHR9oc6SXfQvICzpuC0yrbDYDr+o/A= Received: by 10.143.19.16 with SMTP id w16mr4122704wfi.200.1228060425138; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:53:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.180.17 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:53:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <139b44430811300753o780763c8xf9b4821a837443a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:53:45 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" To: vogelke+software@pobox.com In-Reply-To: <20081128215528.35F4BB7C5@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20081128194531.7B17FB7C5@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> <20081128212753.D6715@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081128215528.35F4BB7C5@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5 TB server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:53:45 -0000 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:45:31 -0500, >>> I spewed something along the lines of: > > K> In my experience, completely new filesystems or operating systems need at > K> least 5 years in the field to weed out all the weird corner-cases. I might > K> trust ZFS on Sun hardware (*with* vendor support) at this point, but I'd > K> wait awhile before trying it on anything else. > >>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:28:51 +0100, >>> Wojciech Puchar said: > > W> if it will ever be good filesystem, it will be no longer ZFS. just the > W> ideas is in big part wrong. > > I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at least one idea in ZFS is > worth its weight in platinum: end-to-end file-integrity checks. ZFS can > (and does) find and correct file errors introduced by disk firmware and > media problems. With the sheer volume of stuff being stored these days, > that capability (in any filesystem) is going to be crucial. This is one of the main reasons i want to go with ZFS. Another would be the filesystem level compression of the data. I have noticed that 3dmax files (one of the programs the company works with) are very "compressable" (from 50 Mb to ~ 7Mb). thank you, v > > -- > Karl Vogel I don't speak for the USAF or my company > > I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York > said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't > cold enough. Let's go west." --Richard Jeni > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >