From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 23 23:19:30 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 657E01065675 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:19:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eam1edward@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372DF8FC14 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:19:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so5435179pbb.13 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:19:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hlvZO+/7dCSvF/7b9aGpB0+Yhhb/LXt6q0Lq+CIPlh0=; b=cvn1qkuXiASwiU+3TSnPe1fpyEwjA0uH6BCBG5gdZcGeDhIxQwTRSZDMXGH93PwEnD BzG7+iViFEmwp+fKG4mVkequJJN7eECWhCdezgcFb7R4UJ4BsnCWhG0VtFs3GueQMPQv GbI0NLaWZnF+lIbJP0SMVyqmYqi90oox3KfrHxH8iEGE4+0zM9GKpDw3GC8XEHVZ2/Vn +W5KbThMTvgrt6kFIPqyzGSqttT3r4SjgMKQuud2htlcjWuSQBbtS/lu4pY7kaLvvZZN aXZr9rNIahpFlL9USEJ5NX44ev1jXhA/yTzuYzS2C+NYxwLkmjDX+Oveb2YZ1b4eHOTW ntxw== Received: by 10.68.226.99 with SMTP id rr3mr25016659pbc.48.1340493564204; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([174.134.109.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ku7sm3556696pbc.31.2012.06.23.16.19.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FE65028.9050809@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:24:24 -0700 From: Edward M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FE2CE38.9000100@gmail.com> <4FE64F04.2090100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4FE64F04.2090100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is ZFS production ready? 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: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:19:30 -0000 On 06/23/2012 04:19 PM, Edward M wrote: > On 06/21/2012 12:33 AM, Hooman Fazaeli wrote: >> 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? > > > I like the ZFS theroy, However I would have to question ZFS Pool > Version Number 28 stability, > that is what freebsd 9.0 comes with. because it was never really > used/marked as production ready by sun/oracle. > in my opionion version 28 is consider as a development version. > solaris 11 uses version 33 so that is consider > as production ready but it is closed source. i think the last open > zfs version pool marked as production ready,was pool > version 14 and 15 > zfs sounds great however i would actally trust more UFS2 for 24x7 > servers. > > agian this is my opinion, could be wrong:-) > > snafu on my part freebsd 8.3 also uses zfs pool version 28:-) so my opinion would also be the same.