> Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a > production environment?
I'd say, as safe as ZFS in general. ZFS has been well-tested by Sun, but it's not as mature as UFS, say. There is not yet a fsck equivalent for ZFS, so if a bug results in damage to your ZFS data pool, you'll need to restore the whole pool from backups. This may or may not be an issue depending on the amount of downtime you can tolerate (and the size of your pool). Adding compression to the mix doesn't really increase risk, IMO. As always, test yourself, in your environment before deploying. :-) Anton This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
