On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 20:13:22 +
Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com wrote:
Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions?
I briefly ran an AFS fileserver on an Illumos x86 distribution
(specifically OpenIndiana) inside a VM. Unsurprisingly it worked.
Am Samstag 05 Oktober 2013, 18:16:54 schrieb Ken Dreyer:
The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our
fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on Linux are such a hassle.
Hmm, not on Debian derivatives, thanks to DKMS.
Bye...
Dirk
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Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers? Date: Sat, Oct
05, 2013 at 08:13:22PM + Quoting Coy Hile (coy.h...@coyhile.com):
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
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@altum.de wrote:
Am Samstag 05 Oktober 2013, 18:16:54 schrieb Ken Dreyer:
The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our
fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on Linux are such a hassle.
Hmm, not on Debian
Ken Dreyer ktdre...@ktdreyer.com writes:
For example, DKMS would require me to install the compiler and various
development libraries on every single AFS (or ZFS) system.
You can use DKMS to create installable packages and just install those
packages on the other systems.
The third reason I
Blaine
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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 (jbla...@kickflop.net):
[ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for you
On 10/05/2013 04:13 PM, Coy Hile wrote:
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
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote:
* Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers?
* If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?
The reason I have advocated against ZFS-on-Linux at work for our
fileservers is that out-of-tree modules on
[ 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
On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net
wrote:
* If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?
We stopped because of the memory fragmentation issue. ZFS will use ~twice the
arc limit you set, and (in my experience) if you don't set the it wisely (e.g.
20-25% total
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 10:31:47 schrieb Jeff Blaine:
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
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Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 16:51:28 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl:
See my presentation about it last year.
Link?
Bye...
Dirk
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On Oct 4, 2013, at 18:08 , Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 16:51:28 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl:
See my presentation about it last year.
Link?
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/
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Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 16:51
Am Freitag 04 Oktober 2013, 17:18:24 schrieb mi...@task.gda.pl:
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/eakc2012/slides/AFS_on_Solaris_ZFS.pdf
Thanks a lot.
Bye...
Dirk
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FWIW: I'm using SmartOS (USB device boot) to boot a smart machine (aka
a zone) with OpenAFS. Giving up any large amount of space for boot
devices on my fileservers seems rather stupid. This has been in
production for several months now.
Using Debian + zfsonlinux with some success for other
* Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers?
Yes.
* If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?
Long there was fear and doubt, but the (not) quality of HW-Raid
solutions and hassle of Linux SW-Raid convinced us that it could not
be worse with ZFS.
* If you are, how is
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