From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 4 08:10:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E2610B for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 08:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F14DDA for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 08:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UNfFP-00007p-8v for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:10:15 +0200 Received: from [81.21.138.17] (helo=ronaldradial.versatec.local) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UNfFO-0005jl-SG for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:10:14 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS in production enviroments References: Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:10:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.14 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: a2d32f98be707cbcda8602d5fffa976a X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:10:23 -0000 On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:01:37 +0200, Sami Halabi wrote: > Hi, > I've registered the last year to the list in order to get more involved > in > ZFS filesystem. > I must admit i didn't install it yet in any prod machine, rather than in > a > VM for testing that I installed lately. > > I see a lots of bugs/patches/stability issues regarding ZFS, what makes > me > think: > 1. is it really ready for production enviroments? Mailinglists have the habit of collecting negative stories because people with positive stories don't have a reason to mail about it. So it is natural that you see a lot of bugs/patches/stability issues on the list. If you follow the Linux releases you will also see that every release contains a lot of updates to the filesystems. Most patches are for edge cases. > 2. Is there anyone that installed it in prod and can give some feedback > about stability, config? Yes, at previous job a backup server with 96 disks running rsync from a lot of servers. Runs nice. Advice: Use amd64. Install a lot of memory. Furter tuning depends on what you want to do with it. > 3. from all the mails about reccomendations I've seen, is someone in > fbsd-team taking the reccomendations and putting them somewhere in a > one-document that describes all the suggestions rather than mailing > lists? I don't know. There might be something on wiki.freebsd.org. > > Thanks in advance, > Regards, Ronald.