Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:20:42 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: John Klimek <jklimek@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How safe is ZFS to use for a home user? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.99999.0712211927290.85589@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com> References: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John Klimek wrote: > I'm looking to setup a file server using RAID 5 (or the equivilant > RAID-Z) and I'm interested in using ZFS. > > It looks like my primary options are Solaris or FreeBSD and since I'm > beginning to really dislike Solaris I'm leaning towards using FreeBSD > however I've heard that there are some issues with ZFS on FreeBSD > specifically regarding some "kmap_mem" or something like that. > > Can anybody tell me if ZFS is safe to use for home users? I'm just > looking to setup RAID-Z with 3x 300 GB and another pool for 1x80GB (I > guess). I got tired of waiting for fsck's and have been using zfs for both my i386 laptop and amd64 media server. I had a couple panics on the media server before I upgraded to 4gb of ram, but basically none since then. On the laptop, I can't recall having any, and it only has 1.5gb. I think that by the design of zfs, the panic might not even have a chance of damaging your data, only losing a write that had not completed, but I can't say I am an expert. In short, it has not given me any problems at all on two different configurations.
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