Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Jun 1 12:37:41 UTC 2012


>> Assuming that filesystem doesn't need offline filesystem check utility
>> because it "never crash" is funny.
>>
>
> zfs scrub...???

when starting means crash quickly?
Well.. no.

Certainly with computers that never have hardware faults and assuming ZFS 
doesn't have any software bugs you may be right.

But in real world you will be hardly punished some day ;)

> Additionally ZFS works directly at the block level of the HD meaning
> that it is slightly different to the 'normal' file systems in storing
> information and is also "self healing"......

doesn't other filesystem work on block level too? if no - then at what 
level?




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