Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

[Scott Ellis]

Yeah, I use ZoL for my home server (mostly pictures, videos, and mp3s) and
it works just fine.  SSD for the / and /boot, and then ZFS for all the
important data in a mirrored pool.  Highly recommended.  (Just updated to
3.7.1 kernel and 0.6.0-rc13 ZoL, with no issues, in case you were worried
about usage with "current" pieces.)

   ScottE


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at>wrote:

> Am 2012-12-28 18:52, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> > Hi,
> >
> > so in the Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video
> > library? thread zfs was mentioned, since I just ordered 3 new hdd to
> > replace the current 5 in my box (3 in raid5, 2 in raid1
> > configuration), I asked myself: instead of raid5+xfs or ext4 or
> > whatever else that might be a sane solution, why not try zfs?
>
> Sure, go ahead :-)
>
> > But - there aren't so many first hand accounts on people using the
> > spl+zfs kernel modules on linux.
> >
> > Anybody done it? Any caveats?
>
> I used it in a former server in my basement, right now the zfs-pool is
> out of order simply because I have no SATA-ports available right now
> (broken mainboard etc)
>
> It is the equivalent of a RAID1 mirror, 2 disks in a tank.
>
> As you may have researched already it is not necessary to partition the
> disks, back then it was recommended to create the pool/mirror by using
> the /dev/disk/by-id/ device-notation.
>
> That pool worked very well for me and even caught SATA-related errors
> with the occasional scrub-run here and then.
>
> I even was able to migrate that mirror from zfs-fuse to zfs-on-linux
> without any problems.
>
> As soon as I have a box with enough hdd-bays again I will re-import that
> pool for sure.
>
> Good luck, Stefan
>
>