Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Freddie Cash writes: > > > If you only want RAID0 or RAID1, then btrfs is okay. There's no support > for > > RAID5+ as yet, and it's been "in development" for a couple of years now. > > [...] snipped excellent information > > Thanks much,

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Freddie Cash writes: > If you only want RAID0 or RAID1, then btrfs is okay. There's no support for > RAID5+ as yet, and it's been "in development" for a couple of years now. [...] snipped excellent information Thanks much, I've very appreciative of the good information. Much better to hear f

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Michael DeMan
Or, if you absolutely must run linux for the operating system, see: http://zfsonlinux.org/ On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > If you absolutely must run Linux on your storage server, for whatever reason, > then you probably won't be running ZFS. For the next year or two, it wou

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Kraus
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > My main reasons for using zfs are pretty basic compared to some here What are they ? (the reasons for using ZFS) > and I wondered how btrfs stacks up on the basic qualities. I use ZFS @ work because it is the only FS we have been able to

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > This subject may have been ridden to death... I missed it if so. > > Not wanting to start a flame fest or whatever but > > As a common slob who isn't very skilled, I like to see some commentary > from some of the pros here as to any compa

[zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
This subject may have been ridden to death... I missed it if so. Not wanting to start a flame fest or whatever but As a common slob who isn't very skilled, I like to see some commentary from some of the pros here as to any comparison of zfs against btrfs. I realize btrfs is a lot less `finis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub error and object numbers

2011-10-17 Thread Shain Miley
Here is the out put from: zdb -vvv smbpool/glusterfs 0x621b67 Dataset smbpool/glusterfs [ZPL], ID 270, cr_txg 1034346, 20.1T, 4139680 objects, rootbp DVA[0]=<5:5e21000:600> DVA[1]=<0:5621000:600> [L0 DMU objset] fletcher4 lzjb LE contiguous unique double size=400L/200P birth=1887643L/1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 15, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > On 15/10/11 2:43 PM, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Oct 15, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tim Cook In my example