I have been gifted with a SunFire 4500 to use as the file server for a cluster I'm building. It is currently running Solaris 10, with a 2-disk RAID0 set for the system and a 44+2 disk ZFS/RAID-Z2 set for the rest. We do not have support for Solaris, don't want to pay for it, and management is reluctant to run something that's not being updated.
[Note: I know this is old, that disks will fail, etc, etc. I need to make it work as is. If it's a problem to maintain, then I can argue for replacing it.] I am not enthused about the current state of the various "native" ports of ZFS for Linux. I have been advised by a colleague that ZFS/FUSE on Linux is a viable option from a performance and reliability viewpoint. My plan would be to install to one of the two boot disks (leaving Solaris on the other for now as failsafe) and re-use the ZFS pool without alteration. Does anyone have experience with this combination ? ---- Brian McAllister Senior Software Engineer [email protected] Bates Research & Engineering Center (617) 253-9537 Middleton, MA _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
