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

[Eric Krieger]

I even wrote up some of the Ubuntu wikis for running ZFS-Fuse...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS

and...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS/ZPool

- Eric




On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Eric Krieger
<grammatoncleric at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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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