On 6/4/07, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a file server with 12 TB on ZFS, and it's nice and all, but we're
having some significant performance issues. Sun assures us they can
help us tune it, so we'll see.
My personal opinion on Sun and ZFS is souring over time, and at this
present moment, I think Linux and LVM + XFS probably is good enough for
most people.
Huh, good to know. I've never used ZFS. I'm in the camp of persons
who use LVM + EXT3. I just thought the demo looked cool and was
hopeful that ZFS was going to raise the bar for future file systems.
Growing pools of storage, and snapshots are some of ZFS's killer
features. You can do this, somewhat less efficiently, on LVM and XFS
(or even ext3). At this point, the jury is out. Certainly Solaris
itself is one of the most arcane and esoteric OS's I have ever used.
GNU helps, once I add 4 different bin folders to my path. Sigh.
Ya, the bin fold issue isn't the biggest for me. It's the lame
package management. Solaris needs to take a lesson from Linux and get
this right. In the mean time there is Nexenta (gnusolaris.org) --
think Ubuntu with a Solaris kernel.
-Bryan
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