Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:09:17 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Artis Caune <artis.caune@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the state of ZFS on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19188.8189.660106.589512@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com> References: <9e20d71e0911042247n216e9b02t7b317a55a9bbe131@mail.gmail.com>
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Artis Caune writes: > > I'm interested inb putting together a file server with lots of disk. > > > > What's the state of ZFS? Is it ready for production use? > > yes, please, see > http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=197218 I'd say it's a matter of individual risk tolerance and how well one knows ZFS. Reading questions@, current@, and hackers@, there are many people happily running ZFS. But it's also generating _at least_ 10x the queries and problems of ufs, ext?fs, ntfs/msdosfs, and nfs put together. Much of that is "Can I X?" or "How do I X?" ... and the rest isn't. My personal take: ZFS has been out there for less than five years (according to Wikipedia) and is still in the steep part of the development curve. I'll wait until it has a few more gigadays under its belt before betting the ranch. Robert Huff
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