From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 5 23:41:23 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 D4EABC5D for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:41:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beastie@tardisi.com) Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org [204.13.248.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B25E1292 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 23:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip70-179-144-108.fv.ks.cox.net ([70.179.144.108] helo=zen.lhaven.homeip.net) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UOGFx-0001OV-7Q; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:41:17 +0000 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Originating-IP: 70.179.144.108 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18Ue4KAmqjSAHa+6H7RhjbPSCPQ2FIvkSc= Message-ID: <515F611B.30000@tardisi.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:41:15 -0500 From: The BSD Dreamer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dennis berger Subject: Re: ZFS in production enviroments References: <4BC15B7B-4893-4167-ACF0-1CB066DE4EE3@nipsi.de> In-Reply-To: <4BC15B7B-4893-4167-ACF0-1CB066DE4EE3@nipsi.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:41:23 -0000 I presume the question is ZFS on FreeBSD in production environments, rather than ZFS in general or ZFS on something else.... ....something else being ZFS native for Linux work...which I have played with now and then, but so far haven't had enough success with it to consider it for long term use, let along production. But, at work we've being using ZFS on Solaris in production ever since it came out, there were some problems in our initial systems, where we did have Sun engineers out to fiddle with things like ZIL....or something in the OS about getting interrupts to spread out to other threads on the core (coolthreads). We like ZFS so much that it opened the door for FreeBSD. So, we have a couple of production systems a FreeBSD 9.0 system with a raidz2 zroot consisting of 5 2TB drives and a FreeBSD 9.1 system with a raidz1 zroot consisting of 6 2TB drives. There are plans to have more in the future... as we move to Solaris systems are for things that have to be on Solaris (like Oracle databases.) Though we are also looking at SmartOS and OmniOS. SmartOS for where we want it to run the hardware that we're doing KVMs on, and there are reasons for not using our vSphere environment. Or, OmniOS for where we want to run native Solaris applications, but don't need/want to pay the premium of Oracle hardware and Oracle support.....the application is available for either Solaris or Linux, and we very much want ZFS.... I've thought about playing with these on my own...but don't have any systems that meet the hardware requirements. (EPT) -- Name: Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen Email: beastie@tardisi.com Snail: 1530 College Ave, A5 Blog: http://lawrencechen.net Manhattan, KS 66502-2768 Phone: 785-789-4132