On 09/17/2013 08:20 AM, Grant wrote:
> I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep
> running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in
> RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support
> 6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting.
>
> Can I operate ZFS RAID without a hardware RAID controller?
>
> From a RAID perspective only, is ZFS a better choice than conventional
> software RAID?
>
> ZFS seems to have many excellent features and I'd like to ease into
> them slowly (like an old man into a nice warm bath). Does ZFS allow
> you to set up additional features later (e.g. snapshots, encryption,
> deduplication, compression) or is some forethought required when first
> making the filesystem?
>
> It looks like there are comprehensive ZFS Gentoo docs
> (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS) but can anyone tell me from the real
> world about how much extra difficulty/complexity is added to
> installation and ongoing administration when choosing ZFS over ext4?
>
> Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it
> considered suitable for a high-performance server?
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1NTA
>
> Besides performance, are there any drawbacks to ZFS compared to ext4?
>
> - Grant
>
Howdy,
been reading this thread and am pretty intrigued, ZFS is much more than
i thought it was.
I was wondering though does ZFS work as a multiple client single storage
cluster such as GFS/OCFS/VMFS/OrangeFS ?
I was also wondering if anyone could share their experience with ZFS on
iscsi - especially considering the readahead /proc changes required on
same system ?
thanks!
