[zfs-discuss] newbie, WAS: Re: SSD best practices

2010-04-19 Thread Michael DeMan (OA)
By the way, I would like to chip in about how informative this thread has been, at least for me, despite (and actually because of) the strong opinions on some of the posts about the issues involved. >From what I gather, there is still an interesting failure possibility with >ZFS, although prob

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-07 Thread Michael DeMan (OA)
Actually it appears that FreeNAS is forking with planned support for both linux (we can only speculate on the preferred backing file system) and FreeBSD with ZFS as preferred backing file system. In regards to OpenSolaris advocacy for using OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD, I'm all ears if anybody is b

[zfs-discuss] mirroring ZIL device

2009-11-22 Thread Michael DeMan (OA)
Hi All, Sorry if this question is already addressed in the documentation, but I am still unclear about some details ZIL devices. I am looking at provisioning some network attached storage with ZFS on the back end. In the interests of the 'inexpensive' part of the acronym 'RAID', I am looking