Hi Nathaniel, On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 11:59 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > Doeas anyone here have any opinions on ZFS? Does anyone host their /var/snd > on a NAS? I’ve been looking at building a freenas system to use around the > office, which use ZFS. >
I can imagine many here have opinions on ZFS... I know I do: I **love** ZFS! I just installed Ubuntu 19.10 on a spare laptop (an old MacBook) and chose the experimental ZFS option on the disk partitioning page. It's been unequivocally awesome so far (about a week). > > In the past I used two Rivendell servers, with one rsyncing to the other > nightly, and backing up the db nightly. I also rsynced to a NAS appliance, > so the data lived in three places. > I have about 8 years of experience with /var/snd on FreeNAS at WDRT. The FreeNAS is sharing /var/snd via NFS (we named it the PIT: "practically infinite terabytes" back when disks were a bit pricier). We have replaced most of the drives in the 24-drive enclosure over the years, and have not had any loss of data. /var/snd is being served to four Rivendell machines, as well as other general-purpose "shares" for other things (both CIFS/SMB and NFS). We're backing up the primary FreeNAS to a "secondary" FreeNAS using the built-in ZFS snapshot and replication tools. FreeNAS has gotten easier to use over the years, and the developers have added some nice features (like hosting virtual machines). I highly recommend using ZFS as the back-end storage file system whenever possible. And FreeNAS comes along with that recommendation too. Hope this helps! ~David Klann _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
