I guess I am mostly interested in MTDL for a zfs system on whitebox hardware
(like pogo), vs dataonTap on netapp hardware. Any numbers ?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
>
>>
>> - I still don't have my original question answered, I want to somehow
>> assess
>> the reliability of that zfs storage stack. If there's no hard data on
>> that,
>> then if any storage expert who works with lots of systems can give his
>> "impression" of the reliability compared to the big two, that would be
>> great
>>
>
> The reliability of that zfs storage stack primarily depends on the
> reliability of the hardware it runs on.  Note that there is a huge
> difference between 'reliability' and 'mean time to data loss' (MTDL). There
> is also the concern about 'availability' which is a function of how often
> the system fails, and the time to correct a failure.
>
> Bob
> ======================================
> Bob Friesenhahn
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>
>
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