Large File System?

[Freminlins]

On 08/08/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad at shire.net> wrote:

> Right now, if no fsck is really really important to you for your data
> store, then get an OpenSolaris system and put ZFS on it.  Never fsck
> again as it is ALWAYS (they claim) in a coherent state.  Or wait for
> ZFS to show up on FreeBSD


Indeed. However as most of my platform is running FreeBSD the problem
doesn't go away.

Not just for the above reasons, I am implementing a Solaris server
> with 1.7TB on ZFS and sharing it to a bunch of FreeBSD machines over
> nfs on dedicated gigabit with jumbo frames on separate interfaces
> from the standard default interface.  (My main reason was to not have
> storage tied to an individual worker server)


I would have used Solaris for this a while ago, but there were no drivers
for the RAID card :-( Hence, Linux....

Chad



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