Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system

[CZUCZY Gergely]

This is the kmem_size overstep issue I'm mostly talking about. No matter how
much you tune your system, the chance of a kernel panic due to kmem_size is too
small remains. And the time will come, and you will have a random reboot during
the backup procedure. It ofcourse happens when ZFS is in use :)

So, in my humble opinion you're better off with (open)solaris for now.

There were some posts on a @freebsd mailing list about making zfs more stable
on amd64 by some VM patching, i don't quite remember the details...

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:31:25 -0700
mike <mike503 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/8/08, CZUCZY Gergely <phoemix at harmless.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Regardless of this, the system worked quite well. If ZFS were stable, this
> > easily could be our backup system. ZFS is great, awesome, but a bit
> > unreliable on FreeBSD, still needs some work.
> 
> Really? I thought ZFS for basic things was not too bad in FBSD now.
> 
> By basic I mean simple filesystem creation, snapshots and normal
> devices. Not some crazy SAN LUNs and weird volume management stuff.
> 
> I would really love to use FBSD as opposed to a Solaris derivative,
> since I know nothing about them and I'd have to dedicate a machine for
> it at home. Hrm. I wonder if I could just get by running a Solaris
> derivative inside of a VM in VMware or something.


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Czuczy Gergely
Harmless Digital Bt
mailto: gergely.czuczy at harmless.hu
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