Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions? Personally, I'm working on rolling my own SmartOS build that has the AFS kernel module installed so that VMs could be AFS fileservers or clients. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but the AFS kernel module is required only for the clients and the fileservers, right? If I host is only an AFS dbserver, it has no requirement for the kernel module to be loaded, does it?
-c ________________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Måns Nilsson Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2013 6:55 PM To: Jeff Blaine Cc: OpenAFS Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? Subject: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? Date: Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:31:47AM -0400 Quoting Jeff Blaine ([email protected]): > [ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for you as ] > [ well! ] > > We're still a 100% Solaris + ZFS file server shop. We're EOLing > our Sun SPARC hardware (with tears in our eyes) this year. > > Before we spend a significant amount of time evaluating this, I > figured I'd ask first. Any brief response would be greatly appre- > ciated. The generously longer the better :) > > * Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers? > * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you? > * If you are, how is it working out for you? > > ext3/ext4 people: What is your fsck strategy? I'd second the question about FreeBSD that was asked earlier. My personal cell runs vicep* on ZFS, 4 zmirrored 2TB SATA drives on an old Dell 2950 with 8G RAM. I also iSCSI share a few devices (around a TB, mail spool, backup spool, and scratch partition) from it. I'm very happy. Rock solid; as good as Solaris on X86 but Larry does not even get credit. Performance-wise, perhaps not super hot, but enough. The only important part is that you MUST NOT have a 32-bit kernel. Now, today, that probably is the default. -- Måns Nilsson primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina MN-1334-RIPE +46 705 989668 I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!! _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
