Ross wrote: > Hey folks, > > I guess this is an odd question to be asking here, but I could do with some > feedback from anybody who's actually using ZFS in anger. > > I'm about to go live with ZFS in our company on a new fileserver, but I have > some real concerns about whether I can really trust ZFS to keep my data alive > if things go wrong. This is a big step for us, we're a 100% windows company > and I'm really going out on a limb by pushing Solaris. > > The problems with zpool status hanging concern me, knowing that I can't hot > plug drives is an issue, and the long resilver times bug is also a potential > problem. I suspect I can work around the hot plug drive bug with a big > warning label on the server, but knowing the pool can hang so easily makes me > worry about how well ZFS will handle other faults. > > On my drive home tonight I was wondering whether I'm going to have to swallow > my pride and order a hardware raid controller for this server, letting that > deal with the drive issues, and just using ZFS as a very basic filesystem. > > What has me re-considering ZFS though is that on the other hand I know the > Thumpers have sold well for Sun, and they pretty much have to use ZFS. So > there's a big installed base out there using it, and that base has been using > it for a few years. I know from the Thumper manual that you have to > unconfigure drives before removal on them on those servers, which goes a long > way towards making me think that should be a relatively safe way to work. > > The question is whether I can make a server I can be confident in. I'm now > planning a very basic OpenSolaris server just using ZFS as a NFS server, is > there anybody out there who can re-assure me that such a server can work well > and handle real life drive failures? > > thanks, > > Ross > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss Hi What kind of hardware etc is the fileserver going to be running, and what zpool layout is being planned.
As for thumpers, once 138053-02 ( marvell88sx driver patch ) releases within the next two weeks ( assuming no issues found ), then the thumper platform running s10 updates will be up to date in terms of marvel88sx driver fixes, which fixes some pretty important issues for thumper. Strongly suggest applying this patch to thumpers going forward. u6 will have the fixes by default. Enda _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
