Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
I had promised to weigh in on my experiences using ZFS in a production environment. We've been testing it for a few months now, and confidence is building. We've started using it in production about a month ago after months of non production testing. I'll append my thoughts in a cross-post

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Lists
On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: Hey, http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html If you have a little time and resource please install and report back any problems you see. Andrew, I want to run /var on zfs, but when I try to move /var over it won't boot thereafter, with errors about

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Cliff Pratt
Grub only needs to know about the filesystems that it uses to boot the system. Mounting of the other file systems including /var is the responsibility of the system that has been booted. I suspect that you have something else wrong if you can't boot with /var/ on ZFS. I may be wrong, but I don't

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/6/2014 3:26 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: Grub only needs to know about the filesystems that it uses to boot the system. Mounting of the other file systems including /var is the responsibility of the system that has been booted. I suspect that you have something else wrong if you can't boot

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-13 Thread Lists
On 12/04/2013 06:05 AM, John Doe wrote: Not sure if I already mentioned it but maybe have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ We checked lsyncd out and it's most certainly an very interesting tool. I *will* be using it in the future! However, we found that it has some issues scaling

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-06 Thread Chuck Munro
On 04.12.2013 14:05, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 04.12.2013 14:05, John Doe wrote: From: Listsli...@benjamindsmith.com Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool, but is beginning to show

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-05 Thread Chuck Munro
On 04.12.2013 14:05, John Doe wrote: From: Listsli...@benjamindsmith.com Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool, but is beginning to show performance/scalability issues dealing with the

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-05 Thread Nux!
On 05.12.2013 22:46, Chuck Munro wrote: On 04.12.2013 14:05, John Doe wrote: From: Listsli...@benjamindsmith.com Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool, but is beginning to show

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-04 Thread John Doe
From: Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool, but is beginning to show performance/scalability issues dealing with the many millions of files being backed

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-04 Thread Nux!
On 04.12.2013 14:05, John Doe wrote: From: Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool, but is beginning to show performance/scalability issues dealing with

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-03 Thread Lists
Andrew, We've been testing ZFS since about 10/24, see my original post (and replies) asking about its suitability ZFS on Linux in production on this list. So far, it's been rather impressive. Enabling compression better than halved the disk space utilization in a low/medium bandwidth (mainly

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-03 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.comwrote: Hey, http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html If you have a little time and resource please install and report back any problems you see. A filesystem or Volume sits within a zpool a zpool is made up of vdevs vdevs are