Is ZFS production ready?

Matthias Gamsjager mgamsjager at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 12:24:00 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Wojciech Puchar <
wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> For my various OpenSource projects, I have deployed a 36TB file system
>> which is fine and stable running 24/7. Additionally at home I use 4TB
>> (2x 2TB) + 8TB (2x 4TB) on a machine with 4GB RAM.... this has been up
>> for 3 years with minimum reboot!
>>
>
> Good. There are some companies that make for living recovering data from
> "unbreakable" ZFS :)
>
> You may be just lucky. or they will make some money.
>
>
And there are many happy users with ZFS (fbsd and opensolaris/solaris).
Guess they are all wrong.

I really want to see your face when you fsck 48TB w/o ffs+j (since that is
so young must be immature :S ) of data with the phone ring non stop with
customers who want to use their data again.


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