Will XFS be adopted

Bartosz Stec admin at kkip.pl
Wed Nov 19 02:24:56 PST 2008


Claus Guttesen pisze:
>>>> [...] I would wait until it has been considered stable and moved into
>>>> the 7-STABLE tree before deploying a production server.
>>>>         
>>> ZFS has been in 7 for over a year.
>>>
>>> DES
>>>       
>> Yes, it's in STABLE, however zfs module says:
>>
>>   This module (opensolaris) contains code covered by the
>>   Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
>>   see http://opensolaris.org/os/licensing/opensolaris_license/
>>   *WARNING: ZFS is considered to be an experimental feature in FreeBSD.*
>>
>> So ZFS in 7.X should not be considered as STABLE for now.
>>     
>
> Install a server with zfs and test it. Then let it handle tasks that
> are not critical. And if it works for you proceed and deploy it. It's
> somewhat difficult to say that it works for your particular workload.
> Some have rather positive experience and others are very reluctant.
>
> I use it as an internal samba-server and the issues I have are related
> to the external sas-cabinet rather than zfs itself.
>
>   
Well it's not simple indeed. I use ZFS on my home (not critical) box 
(RAIDZ1). After 4 weeks uptime with varied workload I assumed it's 
stable. Unfortunately ZFS crashed next week ;)

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