(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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