From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 12:00:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E0816A530 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@bsdsystems.de) Received: from fop.bsdsystems.de (static.88-198-57-43.clients.your-server.de [88.198.57.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B3F13C487 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from db@bsdsystems.de) Received: from halsfrosch.metaspinner.local (c242179.customer.hansenet.de [213.39.242.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by fop.bsdsystems.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D101522823; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:34:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4679115F.4070407@bsdsystems.de> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:37:03 +0200 From: Dennis Berger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070515) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Mueller References: <1182338018.10483.27.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> In-Reply-To: <1182338018.10483.27.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:58:30 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS status now in June? / stable enough for a file server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:00:42 -0000 I have a backupserver running CURRENT with ZFS on a 500gb volume. I use ssync and nfs to sync our production server, and do hourly snapshots since 2-3 month. It never paniced or something like that and is a lot faster than my 6.2 box was. regards, -Dennis Olivier Mueller wrote: > Hello, > > I have to setup a file storage server (non-critcal, just as secondary > backup server) and I am wondering if would be a realistic idea to start > using ZFS. I spent some time browsing the lists and newsgroups, and the > status wiki page looks "good": http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS . > > The http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html page also states: > June 2007 Start FreeBSD 7.0 Release Process, so this may also be > a positive point about overall stability? :) > > It would be to store lots of data, and the FS-compression feature of ZFS > would be quite interesting for this server. Of course I'd be glad to > help debugging any issues I may see. > > So if you are already using ZFS in "pre-production", I would be glad for > a short "go/no go" feedback, thanks :-) > > regards, > Olivier > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >