Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > > ZFS is a local file system as far as I understand it. It's by Solaris > but there are two efforts to port it to Linux, one through userspace > via Fuse and the other through kernel. It seems like the Fuse approach > is more matured and at the moment slightly more desirable from my POV > because no messing around with kernel/recompile needed. I thought the GPL on the kernel code would not permit the inclusion of less restricted code like the CDL-covered zfs. For a network share, why not use the OpenSolaris or NexentaStor versions since you wouldn't be using much else from the system anyway. > The main thing for me is that ZFS comes with inode/sector ECC > functionality so that would catch "soft" hardware errors such as a > flaky data cable that's silently corrupting data without any > immediately observable effect. > > It also has RAID functionality but I've seen various reports of failed > zpool that couldn't be easily recovered. So my most likely > configuration is to configure glusterfs on top of zfs (for the ECC) on > top of mdraid 1 (for redundancy and ease of recovery) Snapshots and block-level de-dup are other features of zfs - but I think you'll lose that if you wrap anything else over it. Maybe you could overcommit an iscsi export expecting the de-dup to make up the size difference and use that as a block level component of something else. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos