On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having
> ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to
> manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrade, so
> we're contemplating switching to ZFS.
>
You didn't mention XFS.
Just curious if you considered it or not.
>
> As of last spring, it appears that ZFS On Linux http://zfsonlinux.org/
> calls itself production ready despite a version number of 0.6.2, and
> being acknowledged as unstable on 32 bit systems.
>
> However, given the need to do backups, zfs send sounds like a godsend
> over rsync which is running into scaling problems of its own. (EG:
> Nightly backups are being threatened by the possibility of taking over
> 24 hours per backup)
>
> Was wondering if anybody here could weigh in with real-life experience?
> Performance/scalability?
>
> -Ben
>
> PS: I joined their mailing list recently, will be watching there as
> well. We will, of course, be testing for a while before "making the
> switch".
>
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