[nmglug] "save the data" fresh install ubuntu 10.10

[Eric Krieger]

Agreed.  I was running zfs-fuse on my linux home server for a while
and enjoyed it but the overhead of fuse was a little much and reads
and writes were slow.  What I really liked, apart from snapshots and
ease is creating raid sets,  was that I could import my zpools into
either freebsd, opensolaris or solaris if I partitioned my discs under
linux with a single partiton before creating the zpools under
zfs-fuse.  I love ZFS... as I'm a NetApp guy...  ZFS has a very
similar command set as that use on DataONTAP.

e.g.

NetApp:

snap create vol snapname

ZFS:

zfs snapshot vol at snapname

I've read that Debian has ZFS available in both Sid and Squeeze...

http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/about-zfs-in-squeeze-2/

Eric


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Nick Frost <nickf at frostitute.com> wrote:
> Hehe, agreed!  Back in 2006 I flew out to San Francisco to install a file
> server (NFS, AFP, SMB.....on Solaris 10 x86).  I came back 10 months later
> not sure what I'd find and....;
> # uptime
>  10:10am  up 297 day(s), 16:56,  1 user,  load average: 0.23, 0.05, 0.02
>
> I save it for posterity.
>
> At the time there wasn't snapshot ageing for ZFS but I'd written something
> that allowed for that and not only was the server running fine (zero
> maintenance)
> the ZFS snapshot backups (a months worth) were as well.
>
> While I know a lot of developers who don't like Solaris, luckily we still
> have many SPARC and x86 Solaris 10 boxen here at $client-job-1;  they tend
> to just run and run. I lost track of the longest uptime but I think it was
> 400+ days.
>
> I agree with you Eric...I think ZFS is the best filesystem since sliced
> bread.  We had a box that failed two drives (raidz2) and ZFS kindly reported
> that we should restore two specific files from tape and install two
> drives...then the server kept running happily along.
>
> I think if one were to build a home file server for archiving a music
> collection, it would be hard to do better than ZFS...the only thing that
> offers bitwise data integrity/checking. FreeNAS it all the easier.
>
> -Nick
>
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