Am 2012-12-28 18:52, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: > Hi, > > so in the Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video > library? thread zfs was mentioned, since I just ordered 3 new hdd to > replace the current 5 in my box (3 in raid5, 2 in raid1 > configuration), I asked myself: instead of raid5+xfs or ext4 or > whatever else that might be a sane solution, why not try zfs?
Sure, go ahead :-) > But - there aren't so many first hand accounts on people using the > spl+zfs kernel modules on linux. > > Anybody done it? Any caveats? I used it in a former server in my basement, right now the zfs-pool is out of order simply because I have no SATA-ports available right now (broken mainboard etc) It is the equivalent of a RAID1 mirror, 2 disks in a tank. As you may have researched already it is not necessary to partition the disks, back then it was recommended to create the pool/mirror by using the /dev/disk/by-id/ device-notation. That pool worked very well for me and even caught SATA-related errors with the occasional scrub-run here and then. I even was able to migrate that mirror from zfs-fuse to zfs-on-linux without any problems. As soon as I have a box with enough hdd-bays again I will re-import that pool for sure. Good luck, Stefan
