Over the years I've had various setups. After losing my data on FreeBSD with vinum (user error and poor RAID-5 performance), numerous individual file corruptions with Linux md+lvm and dozens of dud disks straining every nerve through countless RAID-5 resyncs, and hitting ctrl-c during the inevitable fsck every boot (because it take 20 hours or more) I've settled on Solaris 10 + ZFS and have had the most maintenance-free data solution for the past year or so.
Challenges met: slog device died, fixed with no data loss, in spite of the outstanding CR. Disk failure, hotswapped out and in with no data loss. Migration of ~4TB of data and growing of zpool from 5 to 10 disks, no data loss. Root disk died, reinstall with no data loss. The storage evolved over time from 5x120GB disks to 7x200GB + 5x300GB to the current 10x1TB disks. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM, gm_sjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have built out an 8TB SAN at home using OpenSolaris + ZFS. I have > yet to put it into 'production' as a lot of the issues raised on this > mailing list are putting me off trusting my data onto the platform > right now. > > Throughout time, I have stored my personal data on NetWare and now NT > and this solution has been 100% reliable for the last 12 years. Never > a single problem (nor have I had any issues with NTFS with the tens of > thousands of spindles i've worked with over the years). > > I appreciate 99% of the time people only comment if they have a > problem, which is why I think it'd be nice for some people who have > successfully implemented ZFS, including making various use of the > features (recovery, replacing disks, etc), could just reply to this > post with a sentence or paragraph detailing how great it is for them. > Not necessarily interested in very small implementations of one/two > disks that haven't changed config since the first day it was > installed, but more aimed towards setups that are 'organic' and have > changed/been_administered over time (to show functionality of the > tools, resilience of the platform, etc.).. > > .. Of course though, I guess a lot of people who may have never had a > problem wouldn't even be signed up on this list! :-) > > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > -- David Turnbull
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