5 TB server

[Valentin Bud]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Karl Vogel <vogelke+software at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:45:31 -0500,
>>> I spewed something along the lines of:
>
> K> In my experience, completely new filesystems or operating systems need at
> K> least 5 years in the field to weed out all the weird corner-cases.  I might
> K> trust ZFS on Sun hardware (*with* vendor support) at this point, but I'd
> K> wait awhile before trying it on anything else.
>
>>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:28:51 +0100,
>>> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> said:
>
> W> if it will ever be good filesystem, it will be no longer ZFS. just the
> W> ideas is in big part wrong.
>
>   I'm not trying to start a religious war, but at least one idea in ZFS is
>   worth its weight in platinum: end-to-end file-integrity checks.  ZFS can
>   (and does) find and correct file errors introduced by disk firmware and
>   media problems.  With the sheer volume of stuff being stored these days,
>   that capability (in any filesystem) is going to be crucial.

This is one of the main reasons i want to go with ZFS. Another would be the
filesystem level compression of the data. I have noticed that 3dmax
files (one of
the programs the company works with) are very "compressable" (from 50
Mb to ~ 7Mb).


thank you,
v

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