Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-29 Thread Jonathan Loran
Dominic Kay wrote: > Hi > > Firstly apologies for the spam if you got this email via multiple aliases. > > I'm trying to document a number of common scenarios where ZFS is used > as part of the solution such as email server, $homeserver, RDBMS and > so forth but taken from real implementations

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-29 Thread Ross
Our ZFS implementation is on hold for 12 months while we wait for a few features to mature. We're still very interested in ZFS, and have even put off the purchase of a SAN since the technology looks so promising, I just hope it grows to live up to expectations. The main problems we hit were:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-29 Thread Simon Breden
Hi Dominic, I've built a home fileserver using ZFS and I'd be happy to help. I've written up my experiences, from the search for suitable devices thru researching compatible hardware, and finally configuring it to share files. I also build a second box for backups, again using ZFS, and used iSC

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Dominic Kay wrote: > > I'm not looking to replace the Best Practices or Evil Tuning guides but to > take a slightly different slant. If you have been involved in a ZFS > implementation small or large and would like to discuss it either in > confidence or as a referenceable cas

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Vincent Fox
Cyrus mail-stores for UC Davis are in ZFS. Began as failure ended as success. We hit the FSYNC performance issue and our systems collapsed under user load. We could not track it down and neither could the Sun reps we contacted. Eventually I found a reference to FSYNC bug and we tried out wha

[zfs-discuss] ZFS - Implementation Successes and Failures

2008-04-28 Thread Dominic Kay
Hi Firstly apologies for the spam if you got this email via multiple aliases. I'm trying to document a number of common scenarios where ZFS is used as part of the solution such as email server, $homeserver, RDBMS and so forth but taken from real implementations where things worked and equally imp