begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:47:19PM -0800: > I have been learning a little about ZFS. [snip] > A friend suggested that ZFS + JBOD was pretty much > all that was needed 90% of the time. So no need for > RAID.
JBOD? Oh, "just a bunch of disks". > The cost of ZFS + JBOD should be lower than anything > built on RAID. No hardware RAID controller to buy or > break. The promise of hardware RAID (for me) was transparency -- but this was never delivered, so far as I know. You had to have a RAID-aware OS to use hardware RAID, instead of having a device that could transparently give you RAID benefits on "legacy" and small systems. So long as the OS needs to know that it has a RAID, good riddance, ZFS is far more appealing. [snip] > Yet Another Question is the availability of ZFS on Linux > where it seems there are licensing issues. CDDL vs GPL. Hm. I thought that it was that the Linux developers resisted the telescoping of their beloved layers... > No such problem exists with FreeBSD so Release 7.0 > scheduled for Jan 14, 2008 will have ZFS ... > > Maybe we should be looking harder at FreeBSD? If you're going to run a fileserver -- especially if you're using NFS -- then you should be already, no? -- Need to set up a disk-heavy machine RSN. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
