Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Tue, 2 Dec 2008 08:57:58 -0800, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, speed, stability, etc... So, my question is this... If you were

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues when there are power hits? May be UFS + gjournal. I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: what file system would you choose? What options are out there besides UFS and ZFS? What FS's are least likely to have corruption issues when there are power hits? May be UFS + gjournal. I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write everything twice or am i wrong? It writes everything twice :) (but every journaling system has to write something twice) there is a big difference between something (metadata, short data

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:21:19 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I use gjournal since FreeBSD 7.0 and it seems to work fine. is it really smart enough to not write everything twice or am i wrong? It writes everything twice :) (but every journaling system has to

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't know how Gjournal works, but it works below the filesystem (so ^^ next lines shows you actually know. thanks for answer, for me it's definitely not worth using, i would prefer waiting for fsck every few months or less than to have much slower writes i think

Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-02 Thread Don O'Neil
With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, speed, stability, etc... So, my question is this... If you were building a brand new 6.3/7.0 server with decent performance (dual core, 32 Bit OS -

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, no speed, stability, etc... So, my question is this... If you were building a brand new 6.3/7.0 server with decent performance (dual core, 32

Re: Best Journaling File System - ZFS/???

2008-12-02 Thread Dan
Don O'Neil([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 08:57:58 -0800: With all the discussions of ZFS lately, I'm beginning to wonder if it's really ready for a production environment. Concerns over memory utilization, speed, stability, etc... From everything I've read people use it in production