Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:44:23 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How safe is ZFS to use for a home user? Message-ID: <200712250244.32695.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <c68396460712211934q771eb921g90257246abd6298b@mail.gmail.com> References: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0712211927290.85589@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <c68396460712211934q771eb921g90257246abd6298b@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > Has anybody ever lost data due to any bugs or anything like that? I'm > going to use this ZFS as my primary storage medium (and poor man's > backup solution), so I would be devastated if I lost my entire array > due to a bug or other issue (aside from losing two hard drives in a > three hard drive RAID-Z array). I haven't. Haven't really seen anyone say they have either, in a way that was due to a ZFS bug. I'm using it for several machines (both private and in production). Two of them are doing raidz2 with 5 and 6 disks respectively, another two are doing three-way mirroring. Based on past experience and behavior in various edge cases (port outtages, crashes causing rebuilds, etc), I feel safer with ZFS than without, even if the implementation is not as mature as UFS. However, the fact that I "feel safe" is of course not very objective nor useful ;) Just with these select few machines, I have already had snapshots save me at least once and checksumming "sort of" saved me once. And knowing that 'zpool scrub' really tests your integrity properly is *so* re-assuring I can't even begin to describe it. That said, no raid/storage solution is ever going to be perfect. Insert standard rant about keeping backups here. -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHcGCADNor2+l1i30RAlKAAKDKFR2qp0t5ttfpsn673ZwVTvOCBACg7Xi6 SUMJZEpTIUJZufAdzfREPB4= =mpNn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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