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I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep |
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running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in |
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RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support |
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6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting. |
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Can I operate ZFS RAID without a hardware RAID controller? |
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From a RAID perspective only, is ZFS a better choice than conventional |
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software RAID? |
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ZFS seems to have many excellent features and I'd like to ease into |
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them slowly (like an old man into a nice warm bath). Does ZFS allow |
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you to set up additional features later (e.g. snapshots, encryption, |
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deduplication, compression) or is some forethought required when first |
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making the filesystem? |
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It looks like there are comprehensive ZFS Gentoo docs |
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(http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS) but can anyone tell me from the real |
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world about how much extra difficulty/complexity is added to |
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installation and ongoing administration when choosing ZFS over ext4? |
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Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it |
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considered suitable for a high-performance server? |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1NTA |
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Besides performance, are there any drawbacks to ZFS compared to ext4? |
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