(actually ZFS) Re: Will XFS be adopted

Wes Morgan morganw at chemikals.org
Thu Nov 20 17:18:35 PST 2008


On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Rudy wrote:

> martinko wrote:
>> Bartosz Stec wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 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 ;)
>>> 
>> 
>> How did it crash ?  Just the system went down or did you lose any data ?
>
> Read my previous email on tuning your system so ZFS doesn't crash.
>
>> I'm planning to build new home server and put all my valuable data on ZFS 
>> but after reading all the mailing lists I'm not so sure about it. :(
>
> I've been using it on a shared machine with hundreds of customers for over 8 
> months.  It has worked flawlessly.  People who complain about the crashes 
> often have not searched the net for: "freebsd zfs tuning".
>
> Speaking of losing data on a ZFS system, I haven't yet (knock on wood) had a 
> disk failure.  Anyone have a disk failure occur and have an easy/hard time 
> replacing the bad disk?

I had a Samsung drive fail on me a few months back. Samsung does not do 
"advance shipment" like Seagate or WD. I had to run a raidz one drive 
short for about a week. The replacement was as simple as you'd expect - 
"zpool replace ..."

Note, I will not be purchasing any more Samsung drives :)



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