David Lang wrote: > and gaining some new worries along the way. while some are convinced that ZFS is > the best thing ever others see it as trading a set of known problems for a set > of unknown problems (plus it severly limits what OS you can run, which can bring > it's own set of problems along) > > All I know is this: After running ZFS for the Cyrus mailstores for a year now I'd never go back. If someone told me here's a bunch of white-box PC hardware we want you to run OS-Y and filesystem J I'd say find another boy to run it or double my paycheck. For trustworthy mail-storage there isn't anything comparable and you know how nervous people get about mail outages. I haven't had to look at an fsck prompt in over a year, and that is sufficient reason for me. Being able to run a scrub while the system is live after replacing a disk, with no impact, just to be sure it's clean is way into bonus points. But we already run both Solaris & Linux so it wasn't an "unknown" for us. YMMV ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
