BTW, the following text from another discussion may be helpful towards your concerns. What to use for RAID is not a fixed answer, but using ZFS can be a good thing for many cases and reasons, such as the price/performance concern as Bob highlighted.
And note Bob said "client OSs". To me, that should read "host OSs", since again, I am an enterprise guy, and my ideal way of using ZFS may differ from most folks today. To me, I would take ZFS for SAN-based virtualization and as a file/IP-block services gateway to applications (and file services to clients is one of the "enterprise applications" by me.) For example, I would then use different implementations for CIFS and NFS serving, not using the ZFS native NAS support to clients, but the ZFS storage pooling and SAM-FS management features. (I would use ZFS in a 6920 fashion, if you don't know what I am talking about -- http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1245572,00.html) Sorry, I don't want to lead the discussion into file systems and NFV, but to me, ZFS is very close to WAFL design point, and the file system involvements in RAID and PiT and HSM/ILM and application/data security/protection and HA/BC functions are vital. :-) z ___________________________ I do agree that when multiple client OSs are involved it is still useful if storage looks like a legacy disk drive. Luckly Solaris already offers iSCSI in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris is now able to offer high performance fiber channel target and fiber channel over ethernet layers on top of reliable ZFS. The full benefit of ZFS is not provided, but the storage is successfully divorced from the client with a higher degree of data reliability and performance than is available from current firmware based RAID arrays. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn ----- Original Message ----- From: "JZ" <j...@excelsioritsolutions.com> To: "Orvar Korvar" <knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com>; <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs HardWare raid - data integrity? > The hyper links didn't work, here are the urls -- > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1317400 > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/zfs_part1.scalable.jsp#integrity > > >>> This message posted from opensolaris.org >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zfs-discuss mailing list >>> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
