From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 4 12:36:04 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 35E579C9 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:36:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joh.hendriks@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ea0-x235.google.com (mail-ea0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4013:c01::235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3430DB5 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 12:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f181.google.com with SMTP id z10so972238ead.12 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:36:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ubuKgoO8t48bA8FeGZvnG70D/rL0oC+lb7xVKvzGq7k=; b=reOGIRkjQxjaIRn2LY9AX8+jyvCPRVK711la89hkkms0RC7yKOwvCFiAcicCoXL1vK z4AsKNaKsVIu7y3mxf6uQfMtJWEG8i47/PmhP6HGXce5cowADjjXJ8QU5lWEceWHVrYX Z6mg5sUSK6JiQaXiek4cyZ9sP3V0yuAztcH3sQDktUPHsMtBrCFfGEaR8zmOdrUqo3mf U4GREj92zWmoSAIzX4Ii9rScc+qxl0WQN4Dtx+zJZb3OIa3vgyc3vz4Gg/SxyOSv3h3b XYMhOxaFFoACjNh8wxwQfwiQf1fSFltMIqn/v4B17gU9T6faviKI5NZSFk6YI4PW1MeT SY8Q== X-Received: by 10.14.207.200 with SMTP id n48mr10843931eeo.4.1365078962917; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.129] (schavemaker.nl. [213.84.84.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cd3sm1273979eeb.6.2013.04.04.05.36.01 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <515D73B0.2060903@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:36:00 +0200 From: Johan Hendriks User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sami Halabi , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS in production enviroments References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:36:04 -0000 Sami Halabi schreef: > 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? I see a lot of bugfixes for my Microsoft Windows servers too, is it ready for production? > 2. Is there anyone that installed it in prod and can give some feedback > about stability, config? We use a 24 bay supermicro server with FreeBSD 9.0 and 8 300 GB sas drives as our NAS and ESXi backend. We have had zero problems with it till now and it runs for more than a year now. So for us it works very well. The ESXi clients connect to the server through NFS The windows client store there profiles and home dirs on the server with samba We have two ESXi hypervisors each running 5 servers and a couple of workstations. > 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? We do not use any tuning beside one loader.conf setting where we set a max to the arc to about 3/4 of the available memory. The box has 16 GB of ram So for this machine we use the following. vfs.zfs.arc_max="12G" > > Thanks in advance, Your welcome