Hey folks, I guess this is an odd question to be asking here, but I could do with some feedback from anybody who's actually using ZFS in anger.
I'm about to go live with ZFS in our company on a new fileserver, but I have some real concerns about whether I can really trust ZFS to keep my data alive if things go wrong. This is a big step for us, we're a 100% windows company and I'm really going out on a limb by pushing Solaris. The problems with zpool status hanging concern me, knowing that I can't hot plug drives is an issue, and the long resilver times bug is also a potential problem. I suspect I can work around the hot plug drive bug with a big warning label on the server, but knowing the pool can hang so easily makes me worry about how well ZFS will handle other faults. On my drive home tonight I was wondering whether I'm going to have to swallow my pride and order a hardware raid controller for this server, letting that deal with the drive issues, and just using ZFS as a very basic filesystem. What has me re-considering ZFS though is that on the other hand I know the Thumpers have sold well for Sun, and they pretty much have to use ZFS. So there's a big installed base out there using it, and that base has been using it for a few years. I know from the Thumper manual that you have to unconfigure drives before removal on them on those servers, which goes a long way towards making me think that should be a relatively safe way to work. The question is whether I can make a server I can be confident in. I'm now planning a very basic OpenSolaris server just using ZFS as a NFS server, is there anybody out there who can re-assure me that such a server can work well and handle real life drive failures? thanks, Ross This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
