On 11/7/07, can you guess? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Monday, November 5, 2007, 4:42:14 AM, you wrote: > > > > cyg> Having gotten a bit tired of the level of ZFS > > hype floating
I think a personal comment might help here ... I spend a large part of my life doing system administration, and like most Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/2.7/8/9 administrators that time was spend on medium to large SPARC systems ... at companies who could afford it (in my case a financial institution). With that came all of the things you expect from really big companies .. rigorous change control, pain in the ass (borderline neurotic) management ... clever as can be database administrators, sub par backups systems forever taking too long and all sorts of third party storage technologies, each with their own issues. Since applications and data drive the world, you need decent tools to get the best from it. So, Veritias and storage vendors like EMC became hero's overnight in 100% of the organizations I knew off, including mine. My last (active) administration days was spend armed with Solaris 9, ufs with logging, Veritas Volume "Dam"ager ;) and HDS/Symmetrix kit... which was rock solid, fast enough and with a decent amount of braincells not too much of a problem to maintain (in a large SAN environment). Why change ...? Its all good... budget's never come under pressure.. right? Expensive RISC systems would never be replaced by cheap commodity parts... Hang on, you tell me I can pop in Solaris 10, slap in ZFS ... reduce most of my storage footprint to JBOD's ... (and all of this on a little old AMD system.).. You must be joking! Why would I consider a new solution that is safe, fast enough, stable .. easier to manage and lots cheaper? (That's my fanboy hat, please excuse) If administrators consider the above and generate "hype" .. well, then "hype" away. I believe the proof is in the pudding, so I will personally hold out some more, until I see (work on) a fully operational ZFS replacement of the "old school" configurations. (For me that only becomes a reality when the jbod kit is released next year.) But I do believe that some of the "hype" is justified ... maybe not for a Linux administrator running his (apache/php/mysql) company from a HP380 with a smartarray controller ... but sure as hell for an old retired administrator from Solaris environments of yesteryear. PS: I don't think being sucked into a spec sheet battle between various file systems makes any sense ... it's about using technology to give your business an edge ... and zfs (alone) could have changed my old environment dramatically. Thats why I believe people should allow for just a little bit of ... "hype" :) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
