Hi, I haven't tried it out in production. I evaluated it when I wanted to migrate my backup server from OpenBSD's FFS to some file system with history. That was around early 2010. At that time
1. Btrfs was not stable enough for a backup server 2. ZFS in FreeBSD was on a lower version than Solaris and Solaris was a big no-no More over ZFS features needed plenty of RAM. Hammer1 was the right thing for me then because 1. It came as default file system with the OS 2. PFS snapshoting was the right choice for a backup server 3. nofsck was a good thing for big disks 4. Needed way much less RAM to run all Hammer features like snapshot, prune, rebalance, reblock etc on file system. ( http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2012/02/28/9296.html ) 5. Mirroring file systems across systems on different physical locations was possible and easy through ssh There were few other reasons too you can read it here if you are interested. http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-09/msg00083.html Hammer1 lacked some features of ZFS but I could do without them at that time. If hammer1 was not stable at that time then I would have gone for ZFS. Hammer2 seems to be awesome but we will have to wait till it becomes stable and feature complete. But OpenBSD and Dragonfly BSD projects are not slacking like the linux ones so you can expect them to complete it in the time frame they mention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM ZFS status on FreeBSD is very much improved now and it may be worthwhile trying it out if you have plenty of RAM :-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html Regards Siju On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Nataraj S Narayan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Siju > > How good is zfs? Have you tried it out? > > regards > > Nataraj > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Siju George <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00020.html > > > > > > --Siju > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > #[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] >
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