On 10/25/07, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> just wanted to let anyone interested in opensolaris/ZFS for backuppc my
> current status.
>
> i am running an alpha of nexenta(opensolaris kernel+ubuntu 7.06)
>
> 1GB RAM
> 3 hitachi 250GB SATA drive
>
> i have the ubuntu backports backuppc3 running on this machine, archiving
> on a ZFS volume which is about %90 of each hard disk in a ZRAID config and i
> have the ZFS compression module turned on.
>
> in backuppc I have compression turned OFF as im letting ZFS handle it.
>
> the good=
> ZFS seems to compress the files will less CPU usage that backuppc.
> ZFS seems to have *slightly* lower file sizes(that backuppc with
> compression on 3)
> Backuppc's CGI interface works much faster with a lot of files. im not
> sure if this is because compression is off or because ZFS is good.
> i can unplug a hard disk and plug it back in and ZFS recovers without
> bringing the filesystem down.
> i can add another hard disk and add it to the ZFS volume and i will
> automatically become a ZRAID member, which = more space and more
> performance.
>
> the bad=
> only that nexenta is still pretty much beta and has a few system
> glitches. i have had no backup problems but i have some weird little system
> issues that are solved with a reboot.
>
> hope someone finds this interesting and usable.
>
>
I defiantly found this interesting. Thanks for posting
Having never touched ZFS or newer versions of solaris, but being a
long-term linux admin and fan, the idea of ZFS seems interesting but not
really realistic for my projects. Perhaps work like the Indiana project will
change my view on this? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/
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