Torrey McMahon wrote:
Darren J Moffat wrote:
So everything you are saying seems to suggest you think ZFS was a
waste of engineering time since hardware raid solves all the problems ?
I don't believe it does but I'm no storage expert and maybe I've drank
too much cool aid. I'm software person and for me ZFS is brilliant it
is so much easier than managing any of the hardware raid systems I've
dealt with.
ZFS is great....for the systems that can run it. However, any enterprise
datacenter is going to be made up of many many hosts running many many
OS. In that world you're going to consolidate on large arrays and use
the features of those arrays where they cover the most ground. For
example, if I've 100 hosts all running different OS and apps and I can
perform my data replication and redundancy algorithms, in most cases
Raid, in one spot then it will be much more cost efficient to do it there.
but you still need a local file system on those systems in many cases.
So back to where we started I guess, how to effectively use ZFS to
benefit Solaris (and the other platforms it gets ported to) while still
using Hardware RAID because you have no choice but to use it.
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Darren J Moffat
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