All,
I've been following the thread titled 'ZFS: unreliable for professional use'
and I've learned a few things. Put simply, external devices don't behave like
internal ones.
>From JB :
>The good news is that ZFS is getting popular enough on consumer-grade
>hardware. The bad news is that said hardware has a different set of
>failure modes, so it takes a bit of work to become resilient to them.
>This is pretty high on my short list.
>from PS :
>I had a cheap-o USB enclosure that definitely did ignore such
>commands. On every txg commit I'd get a warning in dmesg (this was on
>FreeBSD) about the device not implementing the relevant SCSI command.
I use 3 external devices of on 2 models of external enclosures (eSATA and USB
consumer grade)-- how can I test this write barrier issue on these 2 ?? Is it
worthwhile adding to a wiki (table) somewhere what has or has not been tested ?
Given that ZFS is planned to be used in Snow Leopard, is it worth setting
something up for consumer grade appliance vendors to 'certify' against? ("Ok,
you play nice with ZFS by doing the right things", etc.. ) Maybe you can give
them a 'Gold Star' == 'Supports ZFS' . That'll give them a selling point to
consumers and Sun some free marketing ?
Thoughts ?
Thanks,
Bryant
_______________________________________________
zfs-discuss mailing list
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
