From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 17:22:28 2012 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 56A7C106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Dave.Robison@fisglobal.com) Received: from mx1.fisglobal.com (mx1.fisglobal.com [199.200.24.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2DF8FC15 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.fisglobal.com ([10.132.206.17]) by ltcfislmsgpa07.fnfis.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q5LHMAwt010985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:27 -0500 Received: from lefty.vicor.com (10.14.152.63) by smtp.fisglobal.com (10.132.206.17) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.283.3; Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4FE35846.3080106@fisglobal.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:22:14 -0700 From: "Robison, Dave" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <4FE2CE38.9000100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FE2CE38.9000100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Originating-IP: [10.14.152.63] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.7.7855, 1.0.260, 0.0.0000 definitions=2012-06-21_03:2012-06-21, 2012-06-21, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 Subject: Re: Is ZFS production ready? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: david.robison@fisglobal.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:22:28 -0000 On 06/21/2012 00:33, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: > Dear community > > In the past, I built a 8TB ZFS log server on freebsd 7.4. > However, the system experienced instablility after long up times. > My main motive to use ZFS was UFS inability to support large > file systems. > > Now, I want to the same thing on 8.3 and wanted to know > your opinion on ZFS stability. Is there any success story using > ZFS in 24x7, large volume, heavy duty servers? Is there any > other option other than ZFS to build larger than 2TB file systems? > We use ZFS for critical data and are quite happy with it. I've been using it in production since 8.1-R and have yet to have a problem. Make sure you do your zpool scrubs regularly. I use a cron job. We are currently migrating our customer RAID arrays to ZFS to ameliorate the multi-hour FSCK situations. -- Dave Robison Sales Solution Architect II FIS Banking Solutions 510/621-2089 (w) 530/518-5194 (c) 510/621-2020 (f) daver@vicor.com david.robison@fisglobal.com _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you.