Ted Spradley <tsp...@talent-free-studios.com> writes: > Should I trust NetBSD's ZFS with my user's data? > > I understand that our ZFS isn't being kept up as well as FreeBSD's, > that's why I have FreeBSD on one box on my home network, but I'd like > to keep all *my* hosts on NetBSD (my users run Windows). I have one > user (my wife) who has over 5 Terabytes of stuff she's very protective > of, but relies on me to protect it.
You obviously need to be creating multiple backups and taking at least some of them off site. That's true regardless of filesystem. I would say your exposure from all things not zfs flakiness is far greater than your exposure from zfs issues. I have been using zfs for about a year, on NetBSD 10. It mostly works well, but I find that the system locks up and needs to be power cycled occasionally. However, it has done great at not losing data. The system has 32GB RAM, and it seems other people do not see this (on reasonable memory systems). My 4 GB xen dom0 is also troubled, but 4GB is widely viewed as not enough for ZFS. > When I set up the file server I specified compatibility=2020. Would our > ZFS understand that? zpool get all on my pool shows poolA feature@async_destroy enabled local poolA feature@empty_bpobj active local poolA feature@lz4_compress active local poolA feature@multi_vdev_crash_dump enabled local poolA feature@spacemap_histogram active local poolA feature@enabled_txg active local poolA feature@hole_birth active local poolA feature@extensible_dataset enabled local poolA feature@embedded_data active local poolA feature@bookmarks enabled local poolA feature@filesystem_limits enabled local poolA feature@large_blocks enabled local not sure if that helps.
