ZFS in productions 64 bit

[Tonix (Antonio Nati)]

Freddie Cash ha scritto:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)
> <tonix at interazioni.it>wrote:
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>>  Freddie Cash ha scritto:
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>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)<tonix at interazioni.it> <tonix at interazioni.it>wrote:
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>>  Is anyone using in heavy production environment a ZFS FS with AMD 64 bit?
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>>  We're using FreeBSD 7.2 on our backup servers.  The primary backup server
>> does remote backups for over 105 servers, every night.  And then pushes the
>> changes to the secondary backup server, every day.
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>> Are you using ZFS only on backup servers, or also on remote servers to make
>> a snaphost of data to be backed up?
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> Only on the backup servers.  The remote servers are running either Debian
> Linux 4.0, FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, or RHEL 4.x.  And we do a couple of manual
> backups of Windows XP stations using rsync for Windows.
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I'm evaluating whether to use ZFS for main NFS storage I will provide to 
all front-end servers.
Possibility to snapshost partitions, to extend/decrease them is 
something I'd love to do, but I'm wondering on reliability on long term. 
I see main concerns are about 32bit servers, while 64bits servers looks 
to be more 'protected', but I'm not really sure about.

Better to wait for FBSD 8.0?

Thanks for any advice.

Tonino

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