On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it available as a module in the mainstream distros? Google search > showed me blogs of fuse-ZFS experience in Linux.
If you want production quality ZFS, you need Solaris or Open Solaris. FreeBSD 7.0 has ZFS natively, but it's not production quality, neither is the Mac OSX ZFS port. > What is your opinion vis-a-vis performance of Filesystem on LVM on top > of RAID 10 v/s Filesystem on the RAID devices. Any experience with such > a setup? There's no measurable performance impact due to LVM. But it does add one layer of complexity during recovery etc, so I ended up not using it in my setups. The only advantage I saw with LVM was file system snapshots. However as I recently found out, LVM based snapshots are terribly slow, and performance suffers is you enable them. > The solutions under consideration are openVZ, kvm, and xen. I have not > made my mind yet. I have also looked at parallels and it looks pretty > interesting. The IO requirements and best practices hold good across all virtualization implementations. Best you read all the recommendations before arriving at a conclusion. - Raja _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
